FREE RETURN / HIGH EARTH ORBIT / ART002-E-23568
Artemis II · High Earth orbit · April 2, 2026
Earth from high orbit, 35,420 km up
Taken April 2, 2026 at 21:05:21 UTC (Apr 2, 5:05 PM EDT), mission time T+00d 22:30:21, with a Nikon D5 at 400 mm. Orion was 41,798 km (25,972 mi) from Earth.
- Taken
- April 2, 2026 at 21:05:21 UTC · Apr 2, 5:05 PM EDT
- Mission time
- T+00d 22:30:21
- Camera
- Nikon D5 · 400 mm lens
- From Earth
- 41,798 km · 25,972 mi
- Below Orion
- 26.3°S 144.7°E on Earth
- Chapter
- High Earth orbit — A day looping around Earth to check out Orion: life support, navigation, manual flying.
- NASA record
- ART002-E-23568 on NASA's Gateway to Astronaut Photography ↗
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