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Has a crewed craft ever exploded during re-entry?
Yes, according to Encyclopedia Brittanica:
On February 1, 2003, Columbia broke up catastrophically over north-central Texas at an altitude of about 60 km (40 miles) as it was returning from an ...
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Would it be possible to avoid the heat-from-friction problem when re-entering the atmosphere by performing (vertical) "U-turns"?
Another way of braking on atmosphere re-entry is to think how to recuperate the energy.
Imagine one space vehicle destined for re-entry, and another just launched and just arriving above the ...
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Mysterious meteors travelling below Artemis1 Orion capsule during reentry
tl;dr they are chunks off the heatshield
The OIG report discussing issues with Orion has a similar still from the video in it and labels it "char loss".
It also states
Specifically, ...
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