Orion Back Narsis, Selfie Again With The Moon And Earth

Orion Selfie with the Moon and Earth (photo: dock. NASA)

JAKARTA - The Orion spacecraft has again shown itself to be at the closest distance to the Moon. From this place, Orion sent a pretty amazing image.

Right on Monday 28 November, a camera mounted on a solar panel in the Orion service module took photos of the Moon, and Earth side by side. You can see Earth's bright light compared to the Moon that looks brownishish.

"The image is crazy. It's very difficult to circulate what that feeling is. It's amazing being here and seeing it," said Artemis I mission lead director Rick LaBrode.

The Artemis I mission is a test mission of Space Launch Systems (SLS) and Orion rockets flying alone to the Moon. The unmanned test flight is a precursor to a manned mission later this decade, including a moon landing on the Artemis III mission.

After its successful launch, Artemis mission manager I Mike Sarafin said NASA now has full confidence in the SLS rocket.

Although Orion managed to cover a considerable distance from Earth of about 430,000 km, and made it a spacecraft with a record flight that was superior to that taken by the Apollo 13 capsule during the Moon's missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Orion still has work to do.

Launching ArsTechnica, Wednesday, November 30, the mission will not be completed until Orion maneuvers back around the Moon, and returns to Earth, survives when re-entering the atmosphere, landing off the coast near San Diego, California, USA, which is scheduled for December 11.

Sarafin stated, overall, 31 of the 124 basic goals of the Artemis I mission have been completed. Much of this is related to the performance of launch and landing vehicles on Earth.