NASA's uncrewed Orion capsule hurtled through space on Sunday on the final return leg of its voyage around the moon and back, winding up the inaugural mission of the Artemis lunar program 50 years to the day after Apollo's final moon landing.
Commander Moonikin Campos, Zohar and Helga had a bit of a fun exchange on Twitter.
The Artemis I mission is only the first in a much larger mission.
The photos show the Moon's many deep craters and meteor and asteroid impact marks.
The agency lost contact with the spacecraft for 47 minutes.
"We are going back to the moon. We're working towards a sustainable program, and this is the vehicle that will carry the people that will land us back on the moon again," NASA official said.
Orion used its mounted camera to take the "selfie."
"I'm telling you, we've never seen such a tail of flame," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, who followed the launch with a group of astronauts, said.
Since X-37B first took flight in 2010, the agency has remained tight-lipped about its purpose.
The Artemis I rocket launch has been delayed for the fifth time as Florida prepares for a Category 1 hurricane.
The crater is the largest ever observed since the MRO began its Mars orbit 16 years ago.
The ISS fired its thrusters for over five minutes to avoid hitting the debris of a defunct Russian satellite.
The distinct currently do not have any semblance of a shared origin in the real-colored picture.
The Lucy spacecraft was spotted in the sky during its "very close" pass.
NASA targets November 14th for the next Artemis I rocket launch attempt.
A new study published in the Planetary Science Journal has mapped six areas across the Selk crater region with the help of data taken by the Cassini RADAR.
"Hurricane Ian has made landfall as an extremely dangerous hurricane near Cayo Costa, Florida with maximum sustained winds at 150 mph," National Hurricane Center (NHC) officials tweeted at 3:05 p.m. EDT.
NASA Earth Observatory captured the image of the island with the help of Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9 on Sept 14.
Selected individuals will have to organize at least four community-level events in a year focused on spreading awareness of NASA's latest missions and projects.
Intuitive Machines, an aerospace startup focused on lunar technology, is going public via a SPAC merger.
The image looks like it's from a sci-fi movie, but the bizarre formation seen is, in fact, a naturally occurring phenomenon.
Since its launch, the solar probe has completed 13 perihelions or close encounters with the Sun.