It delivered roughly one metric ton (MT) to the surface through the use of an ablative heat shield for aero-braking, supersonic parachutes, and retro-propulsion. This achieved the “softest” landing ...

Orion uses ablative shielding ... NASA says it will continue with the same heat shield setup for Artemis II, which will include a crew without a lunar landing. However, the vehicle's reentry ...

And there's two different types of heat shields. There are ones that don't damage when they come in. So think about like a space shuttle tile that can be reused. And then there are ablative heat ...

Accordingly, it announced new target launch dates for its Artemis II crewed test flight and Artemis III crewed lunar landing ... As for the heat shield, NASA determined the gasses generated ...