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As the Artemis II crew hurtles toward Earth at 40,233 km/h on April 10, a six-minute plasma blackout during reentry will leave four astronauts entirely on their own — relying on a heat shield that cracked during its only prior test flight. The mission's final minutes represent the highest-stakes engineering test in half a century of human spaceflight.