In today's image, we see the Orion spacecraft with our Earth in the background. This was a part of the Artemis I mission to travel to our Moon and test the capabilities of the craft for future missions to carry astronauts to the Moon. The next step would be Artemis II which could be as early as the end of next year to take a crew of four astronauts around the Moon and back.

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