Watch NASA's Artemis 1 Spacecraft, Moon and Earth In Same Shot During Close Approach

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Experience a breathtaking cosmic perspective as NASA's Artemis 1 mission sends back stunning imagery. This view from Orion's solar array wing captures our home planet as a tiny blue marble alongside the immense, cratered surface of the Moon during a close flyby. Credit: Credit: NASA / edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta

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00:00And here you are looking at a live view of the Orion spacecraft from the solar array wing with the

00:08moon in the distance of the screen, the Earth in the distant frame of the screen and the moon up

00:16close.

00:16Again, we are now less than 2,000 miles away from the moon, but over 200,000 miles away from

00:23planet Earth.

00:30Orion started its journey five days ago from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it launched aboard the Space

00:38Launch System.

00:41Orion has been traveling to the moon ever since, performing checkouts of its systems, as this is an uncrewed test

00:48flight.

00:50It's critical that NASA tests out the hardware and systems aboard Orion, ahead of flying a crew onboard Artemis II.

01:00Thank you for listening.

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