Artemis II’s moon-bound astronauts share first images of Earth’s blue beauty
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“Artemis II’s moon-bound astronauts share first images of Earth’s brilliant blue beauty”
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Wikipedia entries describe Artemis II as a lunar flyby mission but do not mention astronauts sharing Earth images. No direct evidence confirms the claim about image sharing.
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— Artemis II is an ongoing U.S. spaceflight to send four astronauts on a flyby around the Moon and back to Earth. Launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, 2026, the ten-day mission is crewed by NA…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_II
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— Artemis III is planned to be the second crewed mission of the NASA-led Artemis lunar exploration program. The mission's objectives are to conduct tests in low Earth orbit with one or both commercially…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_III
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— The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), formally established in 2017 through Space Policy Directive 1. By 2028…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program
“The three Americans and one Canadian are on course for a lunar fly-by in their Orion capsule before heading home”
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Wikipedia confirms Artemis II is a crewed flyby mission but does not specify crew nationalities or Orion capsule details. Claim lacks direct evidence.
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— Artemis I, formerly Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), was an uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission that launched on November 16, 2022. As the first major spaceflight of NASA's Artemis program, Artemis I marked t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_I
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— Artemis II is an ongoing U.S. spaceflight to send four astronauts on a flyby around the Moon and back to Earth. Launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, 2026, the ten-day mission is crewed by NA…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_II
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— Artemis III is planned to be the second crewed mission of the NASA-led Artemis lunar exploration program. The mission's objectives are to conduct tests in low Earth orbit with one or both commercially…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_III
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_III
“NASA released the crew’s first downlinked images Friday, 1½ days into the first astronaut moon shot in more than half a century”
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Wikipedia entries about Starship and Orion spacecraft do not mention NASA releasing Earth images or mission timelines. No evidence supports the claim.
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— As of October 13, 2025, the SpaceX Starship has been launched 11 times, with 6 successes and 5 failures. The American company has developed Starship with the intention of lowering launch costs using e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starship_launches
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— The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists of a Crew Module (CM) space capsule designed by Lockheed M…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft)
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— Starship is a two-stage, fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. Currently built and launched from Starbase in Texas, it is intended as …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship
“The first photo taken by commander Reid Wiseman shows a curved slice of Earth in one of the capsule’s windows”
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“The second shows the entire globe with the oceans topped by swirling white tendrils of clouds”
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“As of midmorning on Friday, Wiseman and his crew were 145,000km (90,000 miles) from Earth and were quickly gaining on the moon with another 270,000km (168,000 miles) to go”
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