{"id":177010,"date":"2023-11-29T07:22:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/awesome-photo-of-earth-and-the-moon-captured-by-orion-from-deep-space"},"modified":"2023-11-29T07:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:22:29","slug":"awesome-photo-of-earth-and-the-moon-captured-by-orion-from-deep-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/awesome-photo-of-earth-and-the-moon-captured-by-orion-from-deep-space","title":{"rendered":"Awesome photo of Earth and the Moon captured by Orion from deep space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/awesome-photo-of-earth-and-the-moon-captured-by-orion-from-deep-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an extraordinary feat of engineering and international collaboration, the Orion spacecraft, a part of NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/artemis-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Artemis I<\/a> mission, has achieved a remarkable milestone in space exploration. The spacecraft ventured some 267,000 miles from Earth and roughly 40,000 miles from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/timeless-mystery-solved-scientists-uncover-what-is-inside-the-moons-core\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Moon<\/a>, surpassing the distance record set by the Apollo 13 mission over half a century ago.<\/p>\n<p>In this photo, the Orion capsule, along with the Earth and the Moon, appeared to be posing for a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/cff2.earth.com\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20090831\/orion_earth_moon_photo_1medium.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">family portrait<\/a>.\u2019 This iconic image marks a pivotal moment in the mission\u2019s journey, symbolizing the culmination of years of meticulous planning and execution.<\/p>\n<p>Orion\u2019s journey from Earth began a year ago, on November 16, 2022, when NASA\u2019s mega Moon rocket, the Space Launch System, lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. The uncrewed Orion spacecraft was placed into Earth orbit, marking the beginning of a new era in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/astronauts-will-melt-lunar-dust-to-build-roads-on-the-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lunar exploration<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an extraordinary feat of engineering and international collaboration, the Orion spacecraft, a part of NASA\u2019s Artemis I mission, has achieved a remarkable milestone in space exploration. The spacecraft ventured some 267,000 miles from Earth and roughly 40,000 miles from the Moon, surpassing the distance record set by the Apollo 13 mission over half a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}