NASA Artemis II Crew Completes 10-Day Moon Mission, Capturing 12,000 Photos
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Updated · Bored Panda · May 22
NASA Artemis II Crew Completes 10-Day Moon Mission, Capturing 12,000 Photos
1 articles · Updated · Bored Panda · May 22
Summary
More than 12,000 images documented Artemis II’s 10-day trip around the Moon and back, giving NASA its first crewed deep-space photo record since Apollo 17 in 1972.
The four-person crew used the mission as a human-rated test flight for Orion and the Space Launch System, checking navigation, communications, life-support, radiation monitoring and emergency procedures before later lunar landings.
Photos released from the flight show Earth from translunar space, detailed views of the Moon’s far side, life inside Orion and a nearly 54-minute total solar eclipse seen during the April 6 lunar flyby.
Artemis II carried astronauts thousands of miles beyond the Moon’s far side, reviving human travel beyond low Earth orbit after more than 50 years and setting up Artemis III’s planned return to the lunar surface.