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Artemis II mission experts unveiled on April 3 the first images of Earth taken from the Orion spacecraft.

The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission, which launched from Florida at 6.35pm on April 1, have a few different devices on board to take photos of space from inside their Orion capsule throughout the flight.

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00:03We see our pale blue dot seen through the crew's eyes and suddenly we're up there with them.
00:10Humanity is cheering, not just for the crew, but for what they have carried with them, and that's all of
00:17us.
00:20The mission continues to perform well overall, and the crew is in great spirits.
00:26Currently, the crew is more than 100,000 miles from the Earth and about 150,000 miles to go away
00:34from the moon.
00:36You know, Victor said that we call amazing things that humans do moonshots for a reason.
00:46And indeed, this is literally and symbolically our moonshot that we are in the middle of.
00:52If you might or may not know that we have iPhones on board for the crew members, and they're able
00:58not only the Nikon D5s and the Z9s that we have on board that we preloaded already,
01:05they were able to also take some iPhones as well.
01:08That's what Lakeisha is referring to.
01:09And so they'll get some great images from all those cameras.
01:12Gosh, in our first day in space, we just saw some extraordinary things.
01:17The Earth up close, and then by the time we had a bit of a nap and got up, the
01:22Earth was just so far away again.
01:24And then to come in for that transiter injection, we came all the way back to Earth again.
01:29We were out there at 60,000 kilometers.
01:31We came back to within 200 kilometers of the planet.
01:35And it just felt like we were falling out of the sky, back to Earth.
01:40And I said to Reed, it feels like we're going to hit it.
01:43It's amazing that we're actually going to go around and miss this thing.
01:46It was just so close.
01:47And so to take all of that in was really phenomenal.
01:51Thanks so much for joining us on board Integrity.
01:53It's a great ship here.
01:55And we're closer to the moon today than we are to Earth.
01:58This is a big milestone for us.
02:00And we look forward to sharing more with you in the coming days.
02:04Wishing you all the best.
02:05Au revoir.
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