One last look at the Moon before flight day six and your epic lunar flyby, taking you farther into space than humans have EVER traveled.
Before going to sleep on flight day 5, the Artemis II crew snapped one more photo of the Moon, as it drew close in the window of the Orion spacecraft.
Orion and the four humans aboard entered the lunar sphere of influence at 12:37 a.m. EDT on April 6, at the tail end of the fifth day of their mission. That marked the point at which the Moon's gravity had a stronger pull on the spacecraft than the Earth's.
Artemis II's closet approach to the Moon will come on flight day 6, as they swing around the far side before beginning their journey back to Earth. About an hour after entering the lunar sphere of influence, Artemis II Mission Specialist Christina Koch said, "We are now falling to the Moon rather than rising away from Earth. It is an amazing milestone!"
Image Credit: NASA
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That’s what it looks like from my window
Have they been able to fix and understand the smell problem with the toilets?
~~Humans have been to the moon before. So this isn’t the furthest we’ve EVER gone.~~
Edit: I was viewing this from a moon-landing denier scope and not actual distance traveled. I was wrong, and my fellow humans below reminded me of the actual facts.
“You sleep, I watch.”
“I love you to just out there and back”