NASA's Orion photographed the Earth and Moon from a quarter million miles away | Did You Know?

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The Orion spacecraft's record-setting distance from Earth made for stunning photography, apparently. NASA has shared a photo taken by the Artemis I vehicle on Monday showing both Earth and the Moon in the background. Much like some Apollo photography or Voyager 1's "Pale Blue Dot," the picture puts humanity's home in perspective our world is just one small planet in a much larger cosmos. Orion took the snapshot around its maximum distance from Earth of 268,563 miles. That's the farthest any human-oriented spacecraft has traveled, beating even Apollo 13's record of 248,655 miles from 1970. Notably, Artemis I represents the first time explorers intended to travel this far out Apollo 13 only ventured so far from Earth because NASA's emergency flight plan required the Moon as a slingshot.



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