Anyone feeling some awe right about now?
at nearly 270,000 miles away as part of the agency's Artemis I mission. It's the farthest a spacecraft capable of carrying human passengers has ever traveled, in fact, at about 20,000 miles clear of the previous record set by the crewed Apollo 13 mission way back in 1970.
At its journey's zenith, the Orion spacecraft took a moment to gaze back towards its home planet, and captured a photo for the ages, showing both the Moon and the Earth, each half shrouded in shadow and perfectly in line with each other, resting in the unyielding black of space, while part of the capsule and its NASA logos are proudly in view ahead of them.
From here, the Moon appears larger than Earth, but neither could be described as large overall. It's the ultimate, space-spanning exercise in perspective, where an entire world is reduced to a mere marble, looking no more significant than a plastic Earth you'd find hanging in a toy solar system over a child's bed at night.inhabiting the real one. But from Orion's lofty vantage point, you'd never be able to tell.
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