Nasa released the expected images from the journey to the dark side of the Moon

Hearing flight Artemis II successfully orbited the dark side of the Moon on Tuesday night, going farther in space than any manned space flight before.

There are four astronauts on board: the commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen.

Kuulenton’s Orion spacecraft moved to the dark side of the Moon around 1:47 a.m. Finnish time. The connection to the ship was lost for about 40 minutes. Orion returned to the bright side before half past three. The last time people were sent to the dark side of the Moon was in 1972.

The flight home has now started.

En route the crew managed to recreate the iconic photograph taken by the Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders taken at Christmas 1968. The picture can be found with the search term “earthrise”, and it shows the Earth floating in space above the Moon’s horizon.

Astronauts also witnessed the descent of the Earth behind the Moon (in English Earthset) less than an hour before the Earth reappeared in view. At the time of taking the pictures, the astronauts saw the eastern hemisphere of the Earth.

“Asia, Africa and Oceania: We’re looking at you,” astronaut Koch said of Scientific American magazine including when the connection to the command center in Houston was restored.

“We heard you can look up and see the Moon right now. We can see you too.”

Lunar on the dark side, Orion reached the furthest point of its journey, a distance of about 406,800 kilometers from Earth.

The previous record from 1970 is about 400,171 kilometers.

On the dark side, the crew could view the Moon from a distance of almost 6,600 kilometers. Its surface filled their entire view, and they could see craters, ancient lava plains, and escarpments, of which fresh information had not been obtained for a long time.

The crew recorded what they saw with cameras, but also by recording and recording their observations, the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC tells.

Returning to the bright side, the crew made a statement of relief, even though the Moon sighting had kept them busy.

“It’s so great to hear from Maa again,” Christina Koch said when the connection to the command center was restored.

The astronauts were able to watch the “landing”, when the Earth appeared again from behind the Moon, and the solar eclipse, when the Moon was between the ship and the Sun. They put on goggles to watch it.

“It’s really hard to describe. It was unbelievable,” Victor Glover described what he saw.

of the United States space administration Nasa encourages astronauts to vividly describe what they see, because the observations can be useful for science.

Koch said the Moon looks like a lampshade with tiny holes the size of pinpricks that shine brighter than the rest of the moon.

Glover, on the other hand, compared the south and north poles of the Moon. He said the South Pole has much more elevation differences than the North Pole.

NASA wants to send astronauts to the surface of the Moon in 2028, and scientists would like the astronauts to land right near the South Pole.

Astronauts there was also time to eat before losing contact. The lunch menu included vegetable chili, pasta bolognese, chicken in nut sauce, croquettes and chocolate pudding.

All food is special canned food that is dissolved in water and, if necessary, heated with a small heater.

When Having cleared the dark side of the moon, the crew received a call from the President of the United States From Donald Trump. He asked what was the best moment of all.

Commander Reid Wiseman replied that the crew had the opportunity to see places that no human had seen before.

Trump said the entire United States is very proud of the crew. He invited the astronauts to the White House and said he was going to ask them for their autographs, although he doesn’t usually do that.

“But you deserve it,” Trump said.

Correction on April 7 at 5:19 p.m.: The ship went around the dark side of the Moon on the night before Tuesday Finnish time, not on Monday, as was erroneously stated earlier in the article.