If we were standing at the equator on the near-side of the #Moon, and looking straight up, we would see the #Earth and the #Orion spacecraft coming in from the left and crossing over to the right along the upper part of the blue trajectory, right before setting behind us, and then, after orbiting far above the side that's hidden from the Earth, it would reappear at the lower left, cross to the right, and go plunge far into a Terran ocean.

Phew… those earthlings…

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To make things clear again, the nice image above is a plot of the circumlunar trajectory seen from one specific *fixed* point along the Moon's orbit, not what one would see from the surface of the orbiting Moon.

The image below shows how #Celestia, https://celestiaproject.space/, sees #Orion from the Moon. At present, observing the spacecraft from there would be hard because the sun is almost behind it. Visibility will improve as the spacecraft approaches the #Moon.

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