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Earthset. 🌎 @NASA_Orion captured this shot of Earth “setting” while the spacecraft passed close to the Moon. Nearly 270,000 miles (430,000 km) away, #Artemis I will soon surpass Apollo 13’s record-setting distance from Earth in a spacecraft designed to carry astronauts. https://t.co/lvDS7nGPRo

Fly me to the Moon 🌙 This image was taken on the sixth day of the #Artemis I mission by a camera on @NASA_Orion. On Mon. Nov 21, it came within 80 miles of the lunar surface - the closest approach of the uncrewed mission. https://t.co/xzsNKtCcrr

The Exp 68 crew gears up for more spacewalks at the station as the @SpaceX #Dragon cargo craft counts down to launch this week. https://t.co/eHhfKLIBDh

NASA’s unpiloted Orion crew capsule fired a main engine for two-and-a-half minutes Monday just before the capsule soared 81 miles from the surface of the moon, completing a maneuver to bend its trajectory toward a distant retrograde orbit for more testing. https://t.co/JF9o3bwLkS https://t.co/6oYCShpB3n

Earlier today, the Artemis I Orion spacecraft performed its first powered lunar flyby, making its closest lunar approach about 81 miles above the lunar surface. This photo of the far side of the Moon was taken from a camera on one of Orion's solar arrays as it approached. https://t.co/5VRvFz2KTG

The Far Side of the Moon - Shot by Artemis 1

Random thing in the sky that I found in my telescope

Pleiades Star Cluster - AKA The Seven Sisters

Our @NASA_Orion spacecraft will soon break the record for the farthest distance traveled from Earth by any human-rated spacecraft, a record set during the Apollo era. #AskNASA your questions & they may be answered by our experts during our @TwitterSpaces. https://t.co/VyTwYyuJNn

The Jellyfish Nebula (IC443) - Captured using OSC camera with Bortle 7 skies

Artemis I during it's close lunar fly-by earlier today [4000x3000]

The Jellyfish Nebula (IC443)

An eclipse on the way home 📸 #OTD in 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts captured a photograph of the eclipse of the Sun on their return to Earth. The view was created when the Earth moved directly between the Sun and the Apollo 12 spacecraft. Read more: https://t.co/7Yu7cIgYZp https://t.co/rWoJpxECY9

Amid rain showers at Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX has raised a Falcon 9 rocket vertical on pad 39A in preparation for liftoff tomorrow on a space station resupply mission. Watch live views of the launch pad: https://t.co/fZMivlWVp3 https://t.co/l3T0epAYFS

Astronomers spot small space rock just hours before it drops meteorites over Canada https://t.co/J93mJQMpcC https://t.co/ELMkwl7rJl