With its deep-space data relay network performing better than expected, NASA has set up a live video stream from the Orion capsule as it heads toward lunar orbit.
A portion of the far side of the Moon looms large just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken on the sixth day of the Artemis I mission by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. The darkest spot visible near the middle of the imThe video feed is a low-resolution view, but the spacecraft is taking and storing higher-resolution photos. NASA shared a handful of those Monday, but most will have to be retrieved after Orion returns to Earth next month.
Among those, the team hopes, will be great shots of the Apollo landing sites that they plan to take this week. Taken on the fifth day of the Artemis I mission, this photo showing the Orion spacecraft with the Moon beyond was captured by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. The spacecraft arrived at its closest approach to the moon the followingThe Orion capsule is scheduled to fire its engines and enter a distant lunar orbit on Friday, where NASA will see how the spacecraft handles radiation and other challenges of being so far from Earth.
After that, NASA hopes to send astronauts back to the lunar surface, including the first woman and the first person of color.
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