The views rise to the occasion 🌏

On November 28, flight day 13 of the @NASAArtemis mission, our Orion spacecraft captured the Earth rising – or transiting behind the Moon as it reached its farthest distance from home – 268,563 miles (432,210 km) – the farthest any spacecraft designed to carry humans has traveled. The #Artemis I flight test happened almost exactly 50 years after the iconic Apollo 17 “Blue Marble” photo of Earth was taken.

Flight day 13 marked the midway point for the mission, where the Orion continued in distant retrograde orbit – a high altitude path that travels in the opposite direction that the Moon travels around Earth – allowing scientists to study the course of our future lunar orbiting space station – Gateway.