✅ #Artemis II update: ‘Earthrise 2026’, or rather ‘Earthset’. Just after this view from the livefeed, Orion and its crew reached their farthest point from Earth, 406 772 km away. They are now on their way home, set on the free return trajectory by our European Service Module🚀

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April 07, 2026 - 06:02 UTC

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can't really get exited about this. I watched the moon landing as a kid. back then it was amazing. new. fantastic. as where the people who made it possible. now - it's rather 'been there done that.' sorry...
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The people who made it possible now deserve just as much respect as the people back then. It's a completely different political and scientific environment now, so the stakes are very different as well. Really not something you can compare.
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Sorry to be a pain, but, doesn't NASA use the international standard mile ?

So, 252 756 x 1,609344 = 406 771,352064 km = 406 771 km
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to note ,NASA has been saying 'statute mile' so far, which, as far as I know, is the same as the international standard mile, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
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I’d wondered that as well - I recall the US mile being different but that appears no longer to be the case. Why both nations can’t use km beats me - we often see signs “2/3 mile to exit” which obviously are based on km!
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@exploration.esa.int

I heard on the livestream that they've set one of the solar array cameras to high res timelapse mode during this period. That's going to be a stunning video when they put all of the individual frames together.
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Made a time-lapse of that moment, it was magnificent!
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