Last Updated on April 6, 2026 1:16 am by INDIAN AWAAZ
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The American space agency NASA has shared an image of the Moon captured by the Artemis II crew as they travel on a mission to fly around the Moon. The image posted on its social media account showed the entire Orientale Basin on the right edge of the lunar disk, which has never been seen before.
The three Americans and one Canadian are onboard the Orion spacecraft, which is expected to reach its destination tomorrow. The crew includes Canada’s Jeremy Hansen and Americans Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch. They are the first humans to travel towards the Moon since the Apollo 17 crew in 1972.
The objective of the Artemis II mission is to photograph the Moon’s far side. Artemis II is also set to break distance records for human spaceflight, travelling more than four lakh km from Earth before looping around the Moon and heading back without landing or entering lunar orbit. The nearly 10-day mission, set to conclude with a Pacific splashdown on 10th of this month. The space agency aims to land astronauts near the lunar south pole by 2028.