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Earthset from Orion: How an iPhone Captured Humanity’s Fragile Horizon on Artemis II
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Earthset from Orion: How an iPhone Captured Humanity’s Fragile Horizon on Artemis II

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A crescent Earth slips behind the Moon’s jagged craters. Unedited. Raw. Shot on an iPhone 17 Pro Max from 250,000 miles away. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman couldn’t pass it up. ‘Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset,’ he posted on X on April 19, 2026. The 53-second clip, captured April 6 through Orion’s docking hatch, has racked up 11 million views. Boom. Viral in hours. Wiseman commanded Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1972. The four-person team—Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Jeremy Hansen—launched April 1 from Kennedy Space Center aboard the uncrewed Orion capsule. They looped the Moon’s far side, breaking distance records, before splashing down. But this video? It’s personal. No bulky Nikon like Koch wielded nearby, firing 400mm brackets—you hear the shutter clicks in the footage. Just a smartphone wedged into a porthole, switching to 8x zoom.…

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