The world, meanwhile, awaits enthralled with the pictures being released.
The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Courtesy of NASA
HOUSTON—The Artemis II astronauts are on their way home from the moon.
NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen left lunar space just before 1:30 p.m. ET on April 7.
