
A view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026. NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon.
NASA released the crew’s first downlinked images Friday, 1.5 days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a century.


