NASA launched its most powerful rocket from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. The rocket carrying the Orion capsule has just captivated the globe by taking some of the most stunning images of our Moon’s surface.
Some breathtaking images of the lunar surface have been beaming back by the Orion spacecraft. The image was taken by Orion’s optical navigation system, which also takes black-and-white pictures of the Earth and Moon at various distances and stages.
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The US space office presented four stunning photos on its virtual entertainment record, and they quickly drew everybody’s consideration. The pictures disclosed, as per NASA, are the nearest ones taken of the satellite since the Apollo program reached a conclusion in 1975.
It will be the first time in half a century that a space capsule has accomplished a flyby of the moon. If all goes as planned, humanity will return to the Moon (Artemis-II).
