Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman shared a video, taken on an iPhone, of the Earth disappearing, as he and the other astronauts traveled around the Moon.
In a post on X, Wiseman explained that he “could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window,” and described the iPhone as being “the perfect size to catch the view.” Wiseman’s post comes after he and fellow astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10, after completing their mission of flying around the Moon.
“Only one chance in this time,” Wiseman wrote. “Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset.”
Wiseman continued to share that in his video, people could “hear the shutter on the Nikon” as Koch was “hammering away on 3-shot brackets
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