A quick update from the solar system’s coolest road trip: the Artemis II mission just set a new distance record, going farther into space than the Apollo 13 astronauts did in 1970.
Artemis II astronauts share their first images from the historic mission | CNN
“There was a moment about an hour ago where Mission Control Houston reoriented our spacecraft as the sun was setting behind the Earth. And I don’t know what we all expected to see at that moment, but you could see the entire globe, from pole to pole. You could see Africa, Europe, and if you looked really close, you could see the northern lights. It was the most spectacular moment, and it paused all four of us in our tracks.” — mission commander Reid Wiseman
Check out NASA’s Artemis II image repository on Flickr for more shots from space.
What else are our friendly neighborhood explorers up to? Oh, you know, today they’re just doing a quick flyby of the Moon!
How cool is that?
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