NASA's Artemis II sending crew around moon
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See footage Orion Spacecraft, moon and Earth shortly before its "outbound powered flyby burn". Orion was less than 2000 miles away from the moon and over 200,000 miles away from Earth. Credit: Credit: NASA / edited by Space.
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