Images of Artimis II
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Images of Artimis II
 Image 1: Side-by-side comparison: Soviet N1-7L; U.S. Saturn V, SLS Block 1 & Starship by SpaceX. The amount of thrust produced are 10 million; 7.5 million, 8.8 million & 29 million pounds, respectively. |  Image 2: Juxtaposed images of New Glen by Blue Origin, Starship by Space X & the SLS. |
 Image 3: Comparison of the Capsule & Service Modules of Apollo & Orion. |  Image 4: The Apollo Command Module held three astronauts in cramped conditions while the Orion holds four with more room. |
 Image 5: Schematic of the mission with one origin around the Earth, a simulated docking with the upper stage, then a Translunar Injection burn, followed by a coast past the moon & return for splashdown. |  Image 6: This is the course from Earth (in blue) to the Moon (in red). The color coding represents the velocity which decelerates as you approach the Moon (purple) & accelerates as you approach Earth (green). I created this x,y,z axis diagram using Python & the data presented by the NASA website. I also used click here |
 Image 7: NASA portrait of the four astronauts. |  Image 8: Reid Wiseman. |
 Image 9: Victor Glover. |  Image 10: Christina H Koch. |
 Image 11: Jeremy Hansen, Canadian Space Agency. |  Image 12: Artemis II crew flies to the launch site. |
 Image 13: Closeup of the cockpit. |  Image 14: The four astronauts alongside their backup crew. |
 Image 15: The SLS in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). |  Image 16: Another view. |
 Image 17: SLS viewed from below. |  Image 18: Launch Abort System. |
 Image 19: Another view. |  Image 20: SLS viewed from below after the floors have been retracted. |
 Image 21: The SLS rolling out of the VAB using the Crawler Transporter. |  Image 22: The SLS at the launch pad 39B. |
 Image 23: The SLS en-route to launch pad 39B. |  Image 24: One of thousands of workers that make everything work smoothly.. |
 Image 25: The crew in front of SLS. |  Image 26: SLS at night. |
 Image 27: The sunset with the profile of launch pad 39B. |  Image 28: Another view. |
 Image 29: Another view. |  Image 30: The command module with the Moon in the background. |
 Image 31: The SLS seen with all the umbilical lines still attached. |  Image 32: The gangway is still in place. |
 Image 33: The astronauts on the gangway. |  Image 34: Launch pad 39B at night. |
 Image 35: The command module with the Moon. |  Image 36: Closeup of the umbilical cord attached to the upper stage. |
 Image 37: The SLS leaving the VAB. |  Image 38: The SLS at the launch pad. |
 Image 39: The crew are seated inside about 3 hours before launch. |  Image 40: Closeup of Victor Glover. |
 Image 41: Mission Control Center located at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. |  Image 42: Mission Control workers. |
 Image 43: Another view. |  Image 44: The view from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory located at La Cañada Flintridge, California. |
 Image 45: The JPL workers cheering the launch. |  Image 46: Another view. |
 Image 47: A group on the ground watching the launch. |  Image 48: In stark contrast to the thousands of switches emblematic of the Apollo era, the control panel has LCD screens & fly-by-wire controls. |
 Image 49: The instance of launch from cameras positioned at the base. |  Image 50: Another view that shows the escape baskets seen in the background. |
 Image 51: Another view. |  Image 52: The exhaust was noted to be the brightest ever recorded. |
 Image 53: Some described the flame to be as bright as the sun. |  Image 54: You can see the smoke to the left which accumulates due to the deflection tunnel. |
 Image 55: Another view. |  Image 56: Another view. |
 Image 57: Another view. |  Image 58: The heavy soot is due to the solid state boosters on either side of the first stage. |
 Image 59: Telescopic view. |  Image 60: Another view. |
 Image 61: A couple of minutes into flight the rocket is traveling over 2000 mi/hr. |  Image 62: Telescopic view. |
 Image 63: The heavy wake of soot. |  Image 64: Extreme telescopic view. |
 Image 65: The instant the solid rocket boosters separate. |  Image 66: Moments later. Notice how clean the trail is of the first stage which uses liquid oxygen & hydrogen. |
 Image 67: Another view. |  Image 68: A time exposure taken by a photographer. |
 Image 69: Another artistic image. |  Image 70: Once in space the astronauts could see the Aurora Borealis. |
 Image 71: The NASA website keeps track of Artemis II in real-time. |  Image 72: One of the first view of Earth from low Earth orbit. |
 Image 73: Christina looking out the window of the Earth. |  Image 74: A camera mounted on the solar panel takes this external view of the Command Module with the Moon in the background. |
 Image 75: Another view. |  Image 76: The Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS)--why do they use such an awkward name for the second stage? Glover will maneuver at the targe on the side, & a second on inside the upper section. |
 Image 77: Docking maneuver using the top of the ICPS. |  Image 78: The Moon. |
 Image 79: Notice how small the moon appears in this view from the vantage of Earth. |  Image 80: The Service Module, the Earth & the Moon in a single view. The Service Module is also called the European Service Module (ESM). |
 Image 81: The Earth at apogee. |  Image 82: Another view. |
 Image 83: The moon, probably taken by a wide angle lens. |  Image 84: The NASA website keeps track of Artemis II. |
 Image 85: The view inside the command module. |  Image 86: Christina’s face is lit. |
 Image 87: Victor & Christina. |  Image 88: Jeremy, Christina & Victor. |
 Image 89: Victor & Christina. |  Image 90: Jeremy, Reid, Christina & Victor during their first media interview. |
 Image 91: The astronauts sleep at night in floating sleeping bags. |  Image 92: The Earth peeking through the port window. |
 Image 93: The Earth backlit in outer space. |  Image 94: The full moon seen early on the Translunar course. This is the view that everyone sees from Earth. |
 Image 95: The Earth seen as half lit & half in darkness. |  Image 96: The Earth completely backlit with an eclipsed sun. You can see Africa & Europe, Venus to the lower-right & the Aurora Borealis at either pole. Notice the rim of light that represents the thin atmosphere! |
 Image 97: A closer view, perhaps early in the course. |  Image 98: Juxtaposed image of Earth taken from Apollo 17 & Artemis II, taken 54 years apart. |
 Image 99: The Earth seen later in the course, appears quite small. Lovell would say that it is smaller than your thumb using an outstretched arm. |  Image 100: The Moon through the port windows is growing in size. |
 Image 101: The image of the Moon is not only large, but it is starting to rotate as Tycho crater moves from left to right. The far side is starting to show from the left. |  Image 102: Earlier missions have taken images such as this in which the color has been enhanced. Former Apollo astronauts have described the true colors of the moon are usually washed out by the brightness of the sun. |
 Image 103: The Moon taken from the mounted camera outside the spaceship. Notice how large it has become! |  Image 104: The NASA website shows Artemis II at 227,468 miles from earth, & the icon on the bottom shows that the course is located at the place where the incoming course & the outgoing course intersect, |
 Image 105: Another monitor shows the location of Orion with the moon displaced just to the left. In one more day they will nearly intersect as the Moon passes through the course of Orion. |  Image 106: Another page taken from the NASA website. |
 Image 107: Giordano Bruno Crater. |  Image 108: The far side is heavily cratered. |
 Image 109: Another view. |  Image 110: Orientale Basin Crater is prominent in the lower right. |
 Image 111: The terminator line showing darkness to the left. |  Image 112: Illustration showing the near side with known landmarks and the far side as yet unnamed. |
 Image 113: Earthset. |  Image 114: Earthset at 3 minutes before radio blackout. |
 Image 115: Earthset. |  Image 116: Earthset just before entering radio silence, a duration of 40 minutes. |
 Image 117: Solar eclipse of the Moon from space. Three planets are aligned along the ecliptic, from left to right: Saturn, Mars and Mercury. |  Image 118: Another view of the solar eclipse taken from the externally mounted camera. |
 Image 119: The Earthrise when radio communication is re-established. |  Image 120: The near side is on top with the dark Mares & the far side is on the bottom with the lighter heavily cratered surface. Artemis II is 4,067 miles above the moon in this shot. |
 Image 121: A view from the mounted camera showing the command module, the backlit moon & the Earth. Soon the Moon will eclipse the Earth has the capsule enters 40 minutes of radio silence. |  Image 122: The Moon is huge in this view from the mounted camera. |
 Image 123: Comparison of the course taken by Apollo 8 & Artemis II. Apollo 8 passed closer & made 10 orbits around the Moon while Artemis II makes a flyby loop. |  Image 124: The crew celebrates as the make history becoming the only humans to travel this far from Earth. |
 Image 125: Reid Wiseman named a crater Carroll, after his wife who died five years ago from cancer. |  Image 126: More color corrected images of the Moon. |
 Image 127: A middle view. |  Image 128: A view to the right. |
 Image 129: Moon as seen currently from Earth. |  Image 130: Moon, near side as seen from Earth, labeled. |
 Image 131: Moon, near side as seen from Earth |  Image 132: Moon, far side as photographed from lunar probes. |
 Image 133: Milky Way seen from space. |