I don’t know if this helps, but on the Space to Space call between Artemis and ISS, the station crew *did* report they all went to the farthest side of station to be as far apart as possible! Maybe adds a couple meters?

On the science team, we knew just how important preparing for these views was because so many of us come from robotic missions and are right now preparing for the next bunch of robotic missions.

Our A2 science team similarly had to simulate views for months to prepare the crew for shots like this. The beautiful point imho is that humans on crewed AND robotic missions are taking time to capture the wonder along with the baseline data.

I have faith you’ll take the throne back soon enough 😉

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Photo of three men standing on top of rocky terrain. One is wearing a blue zip-up jacket with a blue chambray shirt and tan chinos. One is wearing a green-black checkered jacket with red chamois shirt, white pants, and cowboy hat. The other is wearing a blue parka with with blue jeans.

Two photos. In the first, three men are wearing bomber jackets with blue or white jeans. In the second image, one man is wearing an off white (possibly chamois?) shirt with blue jeans. Another is wearing a blue denim trucker with blue jeans. A third is wearing a blue quilted parka.

Two photos of groups of men. They are wearing Nordic sweaters, olive bomber jackets, flight suits, black-green checkered jackets, cowboy hats, beanies, and jeans.

Two photos. In one, there's a man wearing a brown tweed with a checked shirt. In the other photo, men are wearing bomber jackets and high-waisted cotton pants.

The Artemis II mission reminds me of these 1960s photos of NASA astronauts training in Iceland because they felt the terrain would be similar to what they'd encounter on the moon. The outfits are so great, even some 60 years later.

Agreed ;)

😂 it was a team effort. Our whole lunar science team rocks

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Lmaoooo, this is the feed our science officer uses to see our room. So all my weird dances and stuff were so I could respond to her without clogging up the really tight comms. Turns out it was also live across the world! 😅

That’s not half of it, she’s pretty much the most capable human I know and every day I get to work with her is my favorite day at work.

100% correct 🤣

I was with Artemis II’s scientists during the Moon fly-by. Here’s what I saw Nature correspondent Alexandra Witze describes the joy and tension at mission control in Houston.

On Monday this week, as four humans flew around the far side of the Moon, Nature correspondent Alexandra Witze sat at the heart of the Artemis II mission’s science operations. Here's what she saw.

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literally me tho 😭

Two main types of rock exposed on the lunar surface. The dark maria are basalt, the same type of black lava rock that flows from Iceland and Hawai`i volcanoes. The lighter highlands are anorthosite, made mostly of gray plagioclase feldspar, labradorite. Lots of kitchens have labradorite countertops!

Hey just fyi if you were watching our room feed, it was actually a computer visualization I had our own Ernie Wright make so we could prepare for some opportunistic imaging. Real moon pics should arrive soon!!

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

I almost fainted!

Artemis II Lunar Targeting Plan - NASA Science A guide to the Artemis II Lunar Targeting Plan (the astronauts' Moon observing assignment).

I am so thrilled to share this guide to the observations that the #ArtemisII crew will be making during their closest approach to the Moon!! I hope you'll follow along!

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This is awesome!!!

LFG!

Science finds a place on Artemis 2 While the Artemis 2 mission is primarily a test flight, the four astronauts on board will conduct some science during the nearly 10-day mission.

Science finds a place on Artemis 2

While the Artemis 2 mission is primarily a test flight, the four astronauts on board will conduct some science during the nearly 10-day mission.

little fact: The Earth’s core (both solid and liquid) could fit 8 Earth Moons within it

I’m Burlington (obviously??)

As a Principle Component Analysis hater, I gotta admit that Spotify Wrapped’s sorting of the gays between Burlington and Berkeley is an actually good PCA application if that’s how they did it. Brava

My dream is to one day be described with the phrase “Like an ursine Sarah Connor”

(Congrats to 128 Grazer for winning Fat Bear Week)
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