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  • Earthrise after Orion Executes Outbound Powered Flyby

    Earthrise after Orion Executes Outbound Powered Flyby

    The Earth is seen rising from behind the shadowed surface of the Moon in this video taken on the sixth day of the Artemis I mission by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. The spacecraft had just successfully executed the Outbound Powered Flyby maneuver which brought it within 80 miles of the lunar surface, the closest approach of the uncrewed Artemis I mission, before moving into a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. The spacecraft entered the lunar sphere of influence Sunday, Nov. 20, making the Moon, instead of Earth, the main gravitational force acting on the spacecraft.

    Credit: NASA

  • Apollo 8: Around The Moon and Back

    Apollo 8: Around The Moon and Back

    50 years ago, three NASA astronauts embarked on a journey that would take them “Round the moon and back”. The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service module. This historic mission launched on December 21, 1968 to demonstrate a lunar trajectory and was the first crewed launch of the Saturn V rocket. On Christmas Eve, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders were the first humans to orbit the Moon and the first to see an Earthrise above its surface.

    This video is available for download from NASA’s Image and Video Library: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ_2018_1221_Apollo%208%20-%20Around%20The%20Moon%20and%20Back.html