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NASA Just Uploaded More Than 12,000 Stunning Photos From the Artemis 2 Mission. Here Are a Few of Our Favorites

Smithsonian Magazine·Margherita Bassi·19 days ago
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Although the mission’s four astronauts sent a few photos to Earth while in space, most needed to be delivered via physical memory cards once they returned to the planet A crescent Earth floats beyond the moon in a gorgeous role reversal captured during the Artemis 2 mission. Photo ID ART002-E-21106 NASA The world watched with bated breath as NASA’s Artemis 2 mission launched last month, sending humans toward the moon for the first time since 1972 . The four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft—NASA’s  Reid Wiseman ,  Victor Glover  and  Christina Koch  and the Canadian Space Agency astronaut  Jeremy Hansen —looped around our celestial companion, getting as close as 4,067 miles from its surface. While the crew sent some thrilling photographs to Earth during the mission itself, data limits meant that the rest of the images could be delivered only via physical SD cards once the astronauts came home, according to  Space.com ’s Josh Dinner.…

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