It's a new 'pale blue dot' image from deep space.
The Earth and moon as seen by NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft as it approached a lunar flyby on Monday, Nov. 21, 2022.
After Orion's Monday flyby, NASA flight director Zeb Scoville said the view of Earth setting behind the moon"is a game-changer" as NASA prepares to send humans back to lunar realms with the Artemis 2 mission, currently slated to fly no earlier than 2024. "Going to work at NASA, when I got here we were flying shuttle," Scoville recalled on NASA Television.
"We were building a space station and flying it. That is an incredible vehicle, but on the horizon was always how humanity was going to back to the moon ... [We're] preparing to bring humans back there within a few years. This is a game-changer."?" , a book about space medicine. Follow her on Twitter
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