The view from inside Integrity as recovery forces pop open the hatch…watching the helicopter pass over their shoulders and hearing all the joy, it was as good as it gets.
Last week, we took the mission to the heart of New York City. The Artemis II crew showed the country what’s next.
America is ready to go back to the Moon. Artemis II is just the beginning. 🌕
I meticulously color-balanced and incrementally saturated this photo of the back side of the moon until I could see how impacts "paint" the lunar surface with different minerals
This is just a snippet of my collaboration with @astro_reid, who took this during a lunar flyby.
Single unedited raw photo vs processed stack, captured from behind the moon. The color is there, just so faint it takes dozens of photos to extract
Lunar photography to the absolute extreme
Just a hint of what I'm doing with the photos captured by @astro_reid during Artemis II
Been waiting for this moment. There is a lot in my head that I must process and very little has to do with leaving the planet. Today is my first step. I have never in my life felt peace like this.
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
First contact. 🛸👽 On April 10, U.S. Navy divers were the first on the scene as the Navy and NASA successfully recovered the Orion spacecraft and its crew in the Pacific Ocean, bringing four astronauts safely back to Earth after their journey beyond the Moon.
I sorta had a tiny little hunch this crew would gel brilliant during the mission when @Astro_Christina started mocking my weekly updates during training. This one from @NASAKennedy back in December 😂
Jesse, Steve, Laddy, and Vlad….such an incredible feeling to welcome you aboard Integrity after a nearly 700,000 mile journey. Forever thankful for your service to our crew and the nation.
@happydogs2011@elonmusk I understand why so many would believe this….what my crew and I just experienced couldn’t have been real. But it was. And it was epic.
@JaneidyEve@elonmusk I took that single photo with a wide angle 14-24mm lens….the moon was out window 3 and the earth was out window 4. I didn’t know it got downlinked! AMAZING!
@elonmusk Thank you, @elonmusk - the four of us glimpsed the red hues of Mars far in the distance as the sun slipped behind the Moon and there was zero doubt in our minds that the creative genius of our greatest minds will have us there very soon. LETS GO