"Artemis 2": Spectacular Images and an Unusual Long-Distance Call

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After its spectacular lunar orbit, the Artemis 2 spacecraft is returning to Earth. The crew is using this opportunity to send more spectacular images back to Earth – and for an unusual long-distance phone call. By Martin Ganslmeier.

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Still euphoric about their triumphant lunar overflight, Artemis II astronauts made history again on Tuesday: they called their friends aboard the International Space Station, hundreds of thousands of miles away, as they returned home from the Moon. It was the first radio communication between a lunar ship and a spaceship. NASA’s Apollo crews had no company outside the Earth in the 1960s and 1970s, the last time mankind sailed into deep space. “W…