New Zealand visible in photo from NASA's Artemis mission

NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Australia and New Zealand, as the crew travels towards the Moon. Photos: NASA/Handout via REUTERS The Orion capsule carrying four astronauts in NASA's Artemis II mission executed a key thruster firing on Thursday that will kick the crew out of Earth's orbit and on a path toward the moon, committing them to reaching the farthest distance humans have ever travelled in space.

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