NASA, Artemis and moon
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What does Earth look like from the vantage point of Artemis II's astronauts? NASA released a handful of images on Friday of Earth, taken from space by Commander Reid Wiseman and others aboard the
NASA 's Artemis Real-time Orbit Website, or AROW, allows the public to track the moonship. During the roughly 10-day test flight, anyone with a phone or computer can see how far the crew — Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen — are from Earth.
With NASA's flight tracker, you can follow along with the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission as they make their way toward the moon.
A Virtual Telescope Project livestream aims to track NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft — here's how to watch it as it travels through space.
Artemis II astronauts will not set foot on the moon during the planned 10-day lunar mission. However, they could travel further away from home than any human being in history, reaching a distance of 248,700 miles, breaking a record set by Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970.
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It’s time for Artemis II to break Apollo 13’s distance record: What to know about the moon flyby
We’ll get eyes on the moon, kind of map it out and then continue to go back in force,” said flight director Judd Frieling.