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Also wanted to bring back this cutie for crew week! ♡

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2026 April 6

The Path of Artemis II Video Credit: NASA, GSFC, Artemis II, SVS

Explanation: Why doesn't Artemis II land on the Moon? The main reason is that Artemis II is primarily a test mission designed to make a future Artemis missions -- which will land humans on the Moon -- better prepared. Similarly, NASA's Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 went right near the Moon as tests before Apollo 11 -- which landed. As the trajectory in the featured animated video shows, Artemis II will loop around both the Earth and the Moon before returning to the Earth about 10 days after launch. The Artemis II mission will take humans outside the Earth's magnetosphere for the first time since the Apollo missions 50 years ago. In the video, particles from the solar wind are shown as streaks, while the Earth's reacting magnetosphere is shown in flickering green. The Earth's magnetosphere is important in deflecting powerful particles arriving from the Sun as well as creating picturesque auroras visible from the Earth's surface.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260406.html

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"As we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still able to feel your love from Earth. And to all of you down there on Earth, and around Earth, we love you from the Moon" -Victor Glover

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Spaceship Earth

Artemis II in Eclipse

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Lunar Flyby Observations – NASA astronaut Victor Glover

Starstruck

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Sharing a Unique Perspective

A Unique Perspective of Home

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A Quiet Moment for Observations

Hello, World

Hello, World transparent PNG by @slipng

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A Crew Selfie with Rise in Orion

Taking a Peek at Earth from the Far Side of the Moon

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Moon Joy

A New View of the Moon

Artemis II Trajectory

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"As we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still able to feel your love from Earth. And to all of you down there on Earth, and around Earth, we love you from the Moon" -Victor Glover

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Spaceship Earth

Artemis II in Eclipse

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Lunar Flyby Observations – NASA astronaut Victor Glover

Starstruck

bonus:

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Sharing a Unique Perspective

A Unique Perspective of Home

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A Quiet Moment for Observations

Hello, World

Hello, World transparent PNG by @slipng

bonus:

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A Crew Selfie with Rise in Orion

Taking a Peek at Earth from the Far Side of the Moon

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moon and earth

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"As we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still able to feel your love from Earth. And to all of you down there on Earth, and around Earth, we love you from the Moon" -Victor Glover

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Spaceship Earth

Artemis II in Eclipse

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Lunar Flyby Observations – NASA astronaut Victor Glover

Starstruck

bonus:

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Sharing a Unique Perspective

A Unique Perspective of Home

[cosmichroma]

A Quiet Moment for Observations

Hello, World

Hello, World transparent PNG by @slipng

bonus:

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"As we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still able to feel your love from Earth. And to all of you down there on Earth, and around Earth, we love you from the Moon" -Victor Glover

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Spaceship Earth

Artemis II in Eclipse

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Lunar Flyby Observations – NASA astronaut Victor Glover

Starstruck

bonus:

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Sharing a Unique Perspective

A Unique Perspective of Home

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"As we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still able to feel your love from Earth. And to all of you down there on Earth, and around Earth, we love you from the Moon" -Victor Glover

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Spaceship Earth

Artemis II in Eclipse

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Lunar Flyby Observations – NASA astronaut Victor Glover

Starstruck

bonus:

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"As we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still able to feel your love from Earth. And to all of you down there on Earth, and around Earth, we love you from the Moon" -Victor Glover

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Spaceship Earth

Artemis II in Eclipse

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"As we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still able to feel your love from Earth. And to all of you down there on Earth, and around Earth, we love you from the Moon" -Victor Glover

(more photos + links to original photos in the reblogs!)

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Trans flags made from cropped NASA APOD images! 💙 💗 ☁️ 💗 💙

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Nonbinary flag made from cropped NASA APOD images! 💛 ☁️ 💜 🖤

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Non-Human Unity flags made from cropped NASA APOD images! 💚 ⚪ 💜

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Genderqueer flag made from cropped NASA APOD images! 💜 ☁️ 💚

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Bonus phone background version!

...And the original images!

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Genderqueer flag made from cropped NASA APOD images! 💜 ☁️ 💚

(+bonus phone background version & original images in the reblogs ♡)

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"Boy, I am loving the terminator. I think I- I know it's not purely a moon feature but what it does to the features of the moon, to the terrain, I've probably spent the most time describing into my recordings and thinking about and looking at the terminator. There's just so much magic in the terminator. The islands of like- the valleys that would look like black holes, you'd fall straight through to the center of the moon if you stepped in some of those, it's just so visually captivating. The terminator is the most visually striking thing I've seen so far." -Victor Glover

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new just-released photos of the moon from this post 🌔

Lunar Flyby Observations – NASA astronaut Victor Glover