Video: Ride Orion through re-entry and splashdown

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NASA has posted video recorded from inside the unmanned Orion spacecraft as it re-entered the atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 5. Highlights include multicolored plasma, the quick shift of the sky from black to blue, and the release of the giant parachutes that slowed it down:

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