Overview
- The 53-second iPhone clip, which Reid Wiseman posted Sunday on X, shows Earth slipping behind the Moon as seen from the Orion spacecraft.
- Wiseman said the video is uncropped and unedited with 8x digital zoom through the docking hatch window, and Christina Koch’s Nikon shutter is audible as she shot 400mm “Earthset” photos.
- Artemis II was NASA’s first crewed trip around the Moon in more than 50 years, launched April 2 with Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen to test the Orion spacecraft.
- The crew looped behind the lunar far side with a brief radio blackout before returning to a Pacific splashdown off California after the 10-day flight.
- Wiseman called it a once-in-a-lifetime view, and the post has drawn wide attention as a human, first-hand record from the mission.