As it heads for the Moon, NASA's Orion space capsule is sending back snapshots of Earth that evoke the 'blue marble' pictures taken by Apollo astronauts five decades earlier.
This time around, the photographer is basically a robot, built into the camera system for the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission.with the first launch of NASA's Space Launch System, and over the next 25 days, it's due to blaze a trail for future crewed trips to the lunar surface.
Hours after liftoff, a camera mounted on one of Orion's four solar arrays pivoted around to capture a view of the spacecraft's European-built service module in the foreground – with our half-shadowed planet set against the black background of space. "Orion looking back at Earth as it travels toward the Moon, 57,000 miles away from the place we call home," NASA's Sandra JonesEarth shines in an image captured by a camera mounted on one of the Orion service module's solar array wings.
The main purpose of Orion's 16 cameras is to monitor how the capsule's components are performing from launch to splashdown, inside and out. The four solar array cameras can also take pictures of Earth, plus pictures of the Moon as Orion zooms by.
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Spacesuited Snoopy doll floats in zero-g on moon-bound Artemis 1 missionRobert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.
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