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(CNN) – NASA has launched photos of the moon taken Monday by the Orion capsule throughout its closest strategy to the moon, about 80 miles above the lunar floor.
Orion is a part of the Artemis One mission, a 25-and-a-half-day journey that can take Orion greater than 40,000 miles past the far facet of the moon.
The spacecraft additionally snapped a selfie on Wednesday, the eighth day of the mission.
If Orion completes its trek past the moon and again to Earth, will probably be the furthest a spacecraft supposed to hold people has ever traveled.
For now, it’s solely carrying inanimate, scientific payloads.
Nasa’s Artemis program goals to finally set up a lunar outpost to completely host astronauts for the primary time in historical past.
The hope is to sooner or later pave a path to Mars.
The Artemis one mission launched on Nov. 16. The Orion capsule is anticipated to return to Earth on Dec. 11.
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