NASA, Artemis and Journey to the Moon
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Artemis II astronauts view Earth from space
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NASA Artemis 1 moon rocket began its roll back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) in Florida late on Sept. 26, 2022 in advance of Hurricane Ian. The storm that is forecast to affect the Sunshine State is seen in NOAA GOES-East imagery here.
On Friday morning, NASA shared a partial view of our bright blue planet as captured by Reid Wiseman, the mission’s commander. Earth, swathed in swirling clouds, is shown rising through a window on the Orion capsule in which the crew is to journey around the moon.
Resurfaced footage released by YouTuber Gary Friedman shows some of the sturdy computing hardware that powered Voyager 1 and 2, a pair of spacecraft first launched in 1977 and tasked with taking a trip through our solar system.