NASA has released some astonishingly detailed images captured by the Orion spacecraft as it passed within 79 miles of the lunar surface earlier this week.
By all accounts, NASA’s Artemis I mission has been going extraordinarily well, setting up the space agency for a crewed landing on the lunar surface possibly as soon as 2025.
The SLS propelled the uncrewed Orion toward the moon, where it performed flybys of Earth’s nearest neighbor at the start and end of the spacecraft’s time in lunar orbit. Orion's Optical Navigation Camera captured these stunning views of the lunar surface during our flyby on #Artemis flight day 20. pic.twitter.com/mfTL5ZSPSp Jim Free, NASA’s associate administrator for exploration systems development, has also been mightily impressed by the quality of the imagery, sharing some of his favorite captures with his Twitter followers.
NASA will then perform thorough checks on the capsule to see how it fared during its voyage, and also examine the reams of data gathered by the Orion during the multi-week mission. It will then set a firm date for Artemis II, which will use the same rocket and spacecraft to send a human crew on an identical path as Artemis I.
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