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Artemis 1’s Orion capsule sends Earth 1st image of home

Artemis 1 has sent home its first stunning image from what will be a 25-day mission through deep space.

The mission launched atop a Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket at 1:47 a.m. EST (0647 GMT) today (Nov. 16) to conduct an uncrewed test flight around the moon. The new “selfie” image of the Orion spacecraft’s hardware and Earth’s partially illuminated disk come from more than nine hours into the Artemis 1 flight. At the time, the capsule was more than 57,000 miles (92,000 kilometers) from Earth, about one-fifth of the distance to the moon, and traveling at nearly 5,500 mph (8,800 kph).

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