Yes it was worrisome, but how could it not be even with the best tech we'll ever have - I feel relief still on every plane touchdown.

Bravo, Artemis team for an exceptional return to extra-orbital space travel.

The LOS was also more than 6 minutes as predicted (I measured a bit over 7 minutes). What a tension.

I was wondering about that, so I looked up the heat shield issues. It seems like their solution was very defensible and there was every reason to believe it would work out just fine. The plan that did not work as they wanted had a new idea, a double re-entry, and when the results were concerning they backed off to using a traditional single re-entry. That seems like a legitimate fix?

Same! Glad everyone made it safe.