The story behind the beautiful pictures beamed back to Earth from the Artemis II astronauts.
The snap was taken aboard the Orion capsule by its commander, Reid Wiseman, as the crew head towards the Moon.
The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon. Nasa released the crew’s first downlinked images Friday, 1½ days into the first astronaut moon shot in more than half a century. The first photo taken by commander Reid Wiseman shows a curved slice of Earth in one of the capsule’s windows. The second shows the entire globe with the oceans topped by swirling white tendrils of clouds As of midmorning on Friday, Wiseman and his crew...