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Distance makes the heart grow fonder…it didn’t take 219,669 miles to remind me how much love I have for Ellie and Katey. They have been incredible supporters during this journey, and they now fully understand why it was important for me to go explore into the unknown.

Out here playing with Earth-Moon gravity like it is a toy and seeing things that are beautiful beyond comprehension.

Guess I should update this: *Flew with three incredible astronauts and became best friends -
@astrovicglover @astro_christina @astrojeremy

After their extraordinary, history-making trip around the moon, @oprah has an in-depth conversation with the crew of Artemis II: Commander Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid), Pilot Victor Glover (@astrovicglover), and Mission Specialists Christina Koch (@astro_christina) and Jeremy Hansen (@astrojeremy). From launch to landing, the @nasaartemis II astronauts captured the world’s attention while offering a message of unity and hope from space. Watch their conversation on Oprah’s YouTube channel and wherever you podcast. 🎧

My senses remain unusually engaged. Birds, gentle breezes, green grasses, flowers, morning fog in the California mountains, everything stands out more now. Hope it continues.

Life inside Orion!

From April 1-10, the Artemis II astronauts lived and worked inside of the Orion spacecraft, which they named Integrity. NASA astronauts @Astro_Reid, @Astro_Christina, @AstroVicGlover, and @CanadianSpaceAgency astronaut @AstroJeremy spent those ten days observing the Moon and the Earth, collecting scientific data, and maintaining operations on the spacecraft.

The Moon joy was (and continues to be!) contagious as the Artemis II mission flew around the Moon and broke the record for farthest distance traveled from Earth.

Credit: NASA

#Artemis #MoonJoy #Orion

Life inside Orion!

From April 1-10, the Artemis II astronauts lived and worked inside of the Orion spacecraft, which they named Integrity. NASA astronauts @Astro_Reid, @Astro_Christina, @AstroVicGlover, and @CanadianSpaceAgency astronaut @AstroJeremy spent those ten days observing the Moon and the Earth, collecting scientific data, and maintaining operations on the spacecraft.

The Moon joy was (and continues to be!) contagious as the Artemis II mission flew around the Moon and broke the record for farthest distance traveled from Earth.

Credit: NASA

#Artemis #MoonJoy #Orion

Life inside Orion!

From April 1-10, the Artemis II astronauts lived and worked inside of the Orion spacecraft, which they named Integrity. NASA astronauts @Astro_Reid, @Astro_Christina, @AstroVicGlover, and @CanadianSpaceAgency astronaut @AstroJeremy spent those ten days observing the Moon and the Earth, collecting scientific data, and maintaining operations on the spacecraft.

The Moon joy was (and continues to be!) contagious as the Artemis II mission flew around the Moon and broke the record for farthest distance traveled from Earth.

Credit: NASA

#Artemis #MoonJoy #Orion

Life inside Orion!

From April 1-10, the Artemis II astronauts lived and worked inside of the Orion spacecraft, which they named Integrity. NASA astronauts @Astro_Reid, @Astro_Christina, @AstroVicGlover, and @CanadianSpaceAgency astronaut @AstroJeremy spent those ten days observing the Moon and the Earth, collecting scientific data, and maintaining operations on the spacecraft.

The Moon joy was (and continues to be!) contagious as the Artemis II mission flew around the Moon and broke the record for farthest distance traveled from Earth.

Credit: NASA

#Artemis #MoonJoy #Orion

Life inside Orion!

From April 1-10, the Artemis II astronauts lived and worked inside of the Orion spacecraft, which they named Integrity. NASA astronauts @Astro_Reid, @Astro_Christina, @AstroVicGlover, and @CanadianSpaceAgency astronaut @AstroJeremy spent those ten days observing the Moon and the Earth, collecting scientific data, and maintaining operations on the spacecraft.

The Moon joy was (and continues to be!) contagious as the Artemis II mission flew around the Moon and broke the record for farthest distance traveled from Earth.

Credit: NASA

#Artemis #MoonJoy #Orion

Life inside Orion!

From April 1-10, the Artemis II astronauts lived and worked inside of the Orion spacecraft, which they named Integrity. NASA astronauts @Astro_Reid, @Astro_Christina, @AstroVicGlover, and @CanadianSpaceAgency astronaut @AstroJeremy spent those ten days observing the Moon and the Earth, collecting scientific data, and maintaining operations on the spacecraft.

The Moon joy was (and continues to be!) contagious as the Artemis II mission flew around the Moon and broke the record for farthest distance traveled from Earth.

Credit: NASA

#Artemis #MoonJoy #Orion

Life inside Orion!

From April 1-10, the Artemis II astronauts lived and worked inside of the Orion spacecraft, which they named Integrity. NASA astronauts @Astro_Reid, @Astro_Christina, @AstroVicGlover, and @CanadianSpaceAgency astronaut @AstroJeremy spent those ten days observing the Moon and the Earth, collecting scientific data, and maintaining operations on the spacecraft.

The Moon joy was (and continues to be!) contagious as the Artemis II mission flew around the Moon and broke the record for farthest distance traveled from Earth.

Credit: NASA

#Artemis #MoonJoy #Orion

Life inside Orion!

From April 1-10, the Artemis II astronauts lived and worked inside of the Orion spacecraft, which they named Integrity. NASA astronauts @Astro_Reid, @Astro_Christina, @AstroVicGlover, and @CanadianSpaceAgency astronaut @AstroJeremy spent those ten days observing the Moon and the Earth, collecting scientific data, and maintaining operations on the spacecraft.

The Moon joy was (and continues to be!) contagious as the Artemis II mission flew around the Moon and broke the record for farthest distance traveled from Earth.

Credit: NASA

#Artemis #MoonJoy #Orion

Life inside Orion!

From April 1-10, the Artemis II astronauts lived and worked inside of the Orion spacecraft, which they named Integrity. NASA astronauts @Astro_Reid, @Astro_Christina, @AstroVicGlover, and @CanadianSpaceAgency astronaut @AstroJeremy spent those ten days observing the Moon and the Earth, collecting scientific data, and maintaining operations on the spacecraft.

The Moon joy was (and continues to be!) contagious as the Artemis II mission flew around the Moon and broke the record for farthest distance traveled from Earth.

Credit: NASA

#Artemis #MoonJoy #Orion

Life inside Orion!

From April 1-10, the Artemis II astronauts lived and worked inside of the Orion spacecraft, which they named Integrity. NASA astronauts @Astro_Reid, @Astro_Christina, @AstroVicGlover, and @CanadianSpaceAgency astronaut @AstroJeremy spent those ten days observing the Moon and the Earth, collecting scientific data, and maintaining operations on the spacecraft.

The Moon joy was (and continues to be!) contagious as the Artemis II mission flew around the Moon and broke the record for farthest distance traveled from Earth.

Credit: NASA

#Artemis #MoonJoy #Orion

The view from inside Integrity as recovery forces pop open the hatch…watching the helicopter pass over their shoulders and hearing all the joy, it was as good as it gets.

@nasa
@nasaartemis
@astrovicglover
@astro_christina
@astrojeremy
@canadianspaceagency
@usnavy
@secnav
@navymcpon
@laddimus
@vhawaiiadventures
@jessetwang

POV: You’re inside Integrity with the Artemis II crew for reentry all the way to splashdown.

Islands of the terminator.

Made by raw sunlight off crater peaks.Citizens of the sublime.

Can you see them?

Islands of the terminator.

Made by raw sunlight off crater peaks.Citizens of the sublime.

Can you see them?

Islands of the terminator.

Made by raw sunlight off crater peaks.Citizens of the sublime.

Can you see them?

Islands of the terminator.

Made by raw sunlight off crater peaks.Citizens of the sublime.

Can you see them?

Admiring my old friend…

I’m so thrilled to share this one-of-a-kind collaboration with Artemis II astronaut @astro_reid.

The mission was a unique opportunity to get high-quality lunar color data of the back side, and Reid was gracious enough to capture some burst photos for me during the lunar flyby. By aligning and stacking the raw photos he captured, we were able to resolve vivid colors of features invisible from our vantage here on Earth. This has benefit for science of course, but seeing our moon in this new light hopefully helps inspire people to look up and dream big.

I’m still working through many GB of photos, and will be revisiting this data for years to come, hopefully to show you parts of the moon in a way never before seen.

Thank you Reid and the Artemis II team for hearing out this humble request! You knocked it out of the park.

The crew from the @nasaartemis II mission from @nasa paid a visit to Times Square are were celebrated by hundreds of people who were taken by surprise with their presence.

Artemis II was NASA’s first crewed mission of the Artemis program and a major milestone in returning humans to deep space exploration. The mission sent four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on a journey around the Moon, where they tested life-support systems, navigation, and spacecraft performance with a crew onboard for the first time. As the first human mission to travel beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo, Artemis II helped pave the way for future lunar landings and long-term exploration, bringing humanity one step closer to a sustained presence on the Moon and eventual missions to Mars.

@astro_reid @astro_christina @astrovicglover @astrojeremy were the crew of people who made this possible, among the thousands of engineers, scientists, mathematicians, and other amazing workers from @nasa

#togetherweexplore #nasa #artemis #nyc #devilwearsprada