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Nasa Releases First Images From Moon Fly-By
The astronauts captured Earthset, a solar eclipse and nearly 54 minutes of totality during a six-hour lunar flyby, NASA said.
- On April 1, Artemis II launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and the crew is transmitting the first human-captured images of the moon's far side, including a total solar eclipse.
- The crew officially broke the distance record on Tuesday, traveling more than 250,000 miles from Earth and surpassing the 248,655-mile mark set by Apollo 13 in 1970.
- During a call on Monday, President Donald Trump praised the astronauts as "modern-day pioneers," while the crew documented a solar eclipse creating nearly 54 minutes of totality from their vantage point.
- Orion is currently headed back to Earth with a planned splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Friday, concluding the crew's historic lunar flyby.
- NASA officials confirmed that a landing on the lunar surface remains scheduled for no earlier than 2028, positioning the current mission as a critical test for future human exploration.
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NASA has released two images captured from the Orion spacecraft while it was incommunicado, as part of the Artemis II mission. At that time, the Moon was between the spacecraft and the Earth, which meant that for about forty minutes no interaction could be made. The first shows a total eclipse seen from lunar orbit: the Moon, in the foreground, completely covers the Sun and leaves only the corona visible, on a black background without atmosphere…
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