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Look: Orion just sent back these haunting views of Earth from space
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Just five days after launching atop NASA’s SLS rocket, Artemis I reached the Moon — and completed a crucial part of its mission.
The Orion spacecraft made its first successful flyby of the Moon early Monday morning.
At its closest point, it was just 81 miles above the lunar surface.
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