32000km more to the surface of the blue marble and into the blue ocean.

Orion's velocity is now 4.31km / s and increasing, and has enter the space that's closer than the geosynchronous orbit.

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More context for the image above

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Homing

81000 km more to go, and splash!

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No picture of Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover (NASA) yet, but to have the crew quartet complete, here is one of him looking outside a window sometime after the other pictures were taken.

Credit: NASA Johnson
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55196961359/

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#Orion is (eyeballed) about halfway between perilune, where it met Luna, and Terra, but gaining speed.

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This is the high resolution version of the livestream capture above, cropped.

A picture of a space sailor looking out the window of his boat while traveling with a speed of 3414 km/h toward the Moon, taken from outside the boat.

Artemis II Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, of the Canadian Space Agency (#CSA) šŸ‡ØšŸ‡¦ .

Credit: NASA Johnson
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#Perseverance appears to be having increased image transfer errors (bluish, purplish, gray bands). It may be a temporary issue having to do with link geometry, or a sign of aging of the orbiters providing relay service for the rovers on Mars surface.

A new communications satellite, the Mars Telecommunications Network (#MTN), is supposed to be operational there by the end of 2028.

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I missed that intentionally, but I now see that I really missed the opportunity to LMAO online. Though this of course is a much better take that anything I'd have to offer.

Those lovely spacesailors proved once again what has been obvious from the first day: they are exceptional people, in all aspects.

Please watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmmuJ64bnBE

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OMG: Astronauts REFUSE to talk to Trump in AWKWARD call from space

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And now you have Jared Isaacman talk about Trump and the 4 crew visiting the White House šŸ™„, and live coverage from inside #Orion stopped obviously because the spacesailors started firing the rockets to return back to Moon orbit as soon as possible, before gathering more speed toward the W̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶H̶o̶u̶s̶e̶ Earth. šŸ™ƒ 🤣

And, a question about future budget of NASA to Isaacman was quashed.

Back to reality. #humor

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