Spaceship Earth, Artemis II

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Spaceship Earth: The first woman to look back at Earth on the way to the Moon. April 2, 2026. NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers through one of Orion's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth as the crew travels toward the Moon. Her silhouette frames the planet in full sunlight, continents and cloud systems clearly visible through the multi-layered glass of the spacecraft. The composition is Koch's own. This is the original framing, uncropped, exactly as captured aboard Orion with a Nikon D5. The visible grain comes from shooting in the unique lighting conditions of deep space at high ISO. We keep it as is. It's part of what makes this image authentic. Christina Koch is the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit. This photograph was taken roughly