Nasa shared yet another photo from inside the Orion spacecraft on April 6, 2026, showing the Moon shining gloriously through a round window.
The picture was captured as Artemis-II’s four-person crew settled in for sleep.
The 10-day mission is Nasa’s first crewed trip to the Moon in over fifty years, and is expected to help humanity inch closer to the longer goals of delivering another lunar landing and eventually landing humans on Mars.
The mission will test the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that carried it.
“Sweet dreams,” the space agency wrote, just before flight day six and the big lunar flyby.
The image served as a postcard sent from the Artemis-II crew from over 4,00,000 kilometres away.
SPECTACLES FROM SPACE
The new image of the Moon is the latest in a growing collection of pictures the Artemis-II astronauts have sent back since the launch from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US.
The earlier pictures showed Earth as a glowing blue ball wrapped in clouds, with one image capturing the line between day and night.
Another image framed our planet almost blocking the sun, with faint northern and southern lights glowing at the edges.
On day three, the team snapped the Moon getting closer. They first captured a picture of the familiar near side we see from Earth, and then the far side’s rugged landscape, including the full Orientale basin, which no human eyes had ever seen completely before.
The gallery also includes everyday scenes from life in space: crew members floating while they work or rest, and quick snapshots of each other against the black of space.
Here’s a look at some of the best views from the space:
