Thousands at Kennedy Space Center watched Artemis I hit the sky.
And we were even blessed with a photograph I'm still not entirely sure I've grasped: a shot of the Earth, moon and Orion itself, serendipitously imitating 1995's iconic Apollo 13 movie poster. We got to gawk at an evocative, black-and-white piece that fits everything we've ever truly known into a single rectangle. We received a re-creation of Apollo 8's Earthrise and a complementary portrait called Earthset, both named for their resemblance to the sun's daily hello and goodbye to us - but with Earth in its place. Once Orion reached the moon's gravitational whirlpool, descending down to about as close as 80 miles from the surface and completing two flybys, it snapped galleries of awesome images and captured hours of breathtaking videos while completing an array of scientific duties. It passed through our planet's atmosphere, traveled along in Earth's orbit for a short period, then plunged directly toward lunar orbit. NASA/Joel Kowskyįor the next several weeks, the Hershey Kiss-shaped spacecraft, Orion, flew through the vastness of space.
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