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The optical connection is successfully established. The ground station receives 4k data.
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Just a few pictures taken by the Artemis astronauts.
Image Credit: NASA
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Currently the splashdown is planned for Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 2:05am CEST.
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Till now, the Artemis 2 mission is a full success and will be bring human space travel a great step forward and humanity closer to return to the moon permanently.
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Currently the crew prepares to film themselves on an exercise session.
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Photo: NASA TV
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The splashdown of Artemis 2 will be in the night from Friday to Saturday, around 0:20am CEST.
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The moon observation period also finished today. The Return trajectory burn was also already completed today.
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Today Artemis 2 passed the closest approach on the Moon and the farthest distance from Earth on the Mission.
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The Download of the images and audio files from last nights observation has begun.
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The toilet system is still under monitoring according to the mission status page.
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In a few minutes the sleeping period for some crew members starts. In less than 3 hours they will reach the closets approach to the moon.
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The Orion spacecraft with it's crew has successfully passed the the radio silence period behind the moon.
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The crew will later see an eclipse and a partial eclipse that is only visible from the moon. They will use the chance to observe the sun's corona.
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In 1 hour and 40 minutes the crew will lose contact to Earth and in 11 hours and 30 minutes the closest approach to the moon will be reached.
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From window 3 the crew can see now the crescent of the Earth and a full visible moon together.
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The crew has also reported about a structure that appears in a brown colour. This is special as from Earth we can only see the bright grey and white structures.
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The moon becomes bigger as closer as the Orion spacecraft comes.
Photo: NASA TV
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The bandwidth for the Go-Pro cameras was reduced to ensure security of the crew.
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The crew talks often about the so-called "terminator". This is the line where daylight and night are being separated.
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The crew talks often about the so-called "terminator". This is the line where daylight and night are being separated.
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New pictures from the moon and the map of which craters the crew currently looks at.
Photos: NASA TV
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The signal loose will take around 30 minutes and this will be in around 3 hours.
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Christina Koch speaks about much more new craters than visible on photos. Some craters are very tiny.
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In around 1 hour, Orion will enter into the moons gravity sphere. The closest flyby will be in about 13 hours, around 10:40 CEST tomorrow morning.
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The crew is making pictures and videos, writing documentation about their observations of the moon.
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The crew startet their discussion in preparation which elements they can see on the moon.
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In less than 20 minutes, the observation time of the moon for the crew will start.
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More pictures from the Moon.
Photos: NASA TV
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The name suggestions are "Integrity" and "Carol", named after Reid Wiseman passed wife.
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