In this screen capture, NASA shares a view from inside the moon-bound Artemis I Orion spacecraft. It showed a mannequin outfitted in NASA's Orion Crew Survival suit that will be worn by astronauts on future crewed Artemis missions to the moon. NASA also shared a view from inside Orion's cabin. At the time Orion was about 56,000 miles away from the planet. Sonic booms: Sonic booms heard across Florida as secret Space Force spaceplane returns to KSCĬaptured during the outbound portion of the journey to the moon, the first Earth view was provided by a camera mounted on one of Orion's solar array wings. Moon mission launch: With sights set on the moon, NASA launches historic Artemis I mission from Florida The last time a translunar coast photograph of the Earth was captured and shared from a crew capsule was during NASA's Apollo 17 mission in 1972, the final Apollo-era crewed mission to the moon. It's the first image of the Earth from over 50,000 miles away from a human-rated spacecraft since 1972 and the Apollo 17 mission. In this screen capture, NASA shares the first Earth view from its Artemis I Orion spacecraft outbound on its way to the moon.
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