US EditionNASA shares first photos of Earth taken by Artemis II: "Hello, World"
The images show Earth from Orion as the four astronauts travel 90,000 miles from home on a 10-day moon mission, NASA said.
- On Friday, April 3, NASA released the first images of Earth captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey to the moon. Commander Reid Wiseman took the photos using a tablet.
- Launched Wednesday, April 1, 2026, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, the mission began a 10-day journey to the moon, marking the first human flight to the vicinity of the moon in over 50 years.
- As of Friday morning, the Orion spacecraft was moonbound at 4,084 mph and 93,000 miles from Earth, with another 168,000 miles remaining before the crew's scheduled arrival on Monday.
- Crew members were so captivated by the views that they postponed their first meal together to remain at the windows. Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen said the crew remained "glued to the window."
- The astronauts expect a historic lunar flyby on Monday, April 6, 2026, followed by a water landing in the Pacific Ocean near California on Friday, April 10, 2026.
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The astronaut team, currently on its way to the moon during the Artemis 2 mission, sent pictures of the Earth for the first time: "You look great, you look beautiful.
The mission that will take four astronauts around the Moon has exceeded half of its long journey
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bienpublic.comThe four astronauts of NASA's Artemis 2 mission launched toward the Moon on Friday (French time), beginning a journey that will take them by flying past the lunar surface in several days for the first time in over half a century. For nearly six minutes, the Orion spacecraft carrying the three Americans and one Canadian generated the necessary thrust to leave Earth's orbit and begin its journey to the Moon. NASA released the first images of Earth…
We collected the most spectacular photographs of the first mission to the moon in more than half a century: Artemis II.
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