NASA's Artemis I Orion Spacecraft: Moon Views (Nov. 22-25, 2022)

NASA's Artemis I Orion Spacecraft: Moon Views (Nov. 22-25, 2022)

Flight Day 9: Orion Looks Back at Moon

Flight Day 9: Orion Looks Back at Moon

Flight Day 9: Orion Looks Back at Moon

Flight Day 7: Orion's NAVCAM Captures the Moon

Flight Day 7: Orion's NAVCAM Captures the Moon

Flight Day 10: Orion Sees Moon From Distant Retrograde Orbit

Flight Day 9: Orion Captures Moon

Flight Day 9: Orion Captures Moon

Lunar images captured by NASA’s Orion spacecraft from flight days 7 (Nov. 22), 9 (Nov. 24), and 10 (Nov. 25). On flight day 11. Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022, at 8:42 a.m EST (13:42 UTC), the Artemis I Orion spacecraft broke the record for farthest distance traveled by a spacecraft designed to carry humans to deep space and safely return them to Earth. This distance was previously held by the Apollo 13 spacecraft. 

On flight day 10, NASA’s Orion spacecraft captured imagery of the Moon while in a distant retrograde orbit. Orion uses its optical navigation camera to capture imagery of the Earth and the Moon at different phases and distances, providing an enhanced body of data to certify its effectiveness under different lighting conditions as a way to help orient the spacecraft on future missions with crew.

The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration. It will demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond. Orion is completing a 25-day test of all key systems. It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon. Orion will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

On the Artemis III Mission, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars. 

Learn more about Artemis I at:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Dates: Nov. 22-25, 2022 

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