<\/p>\n “The four of us have looked at the moon our entire lives, and the way we are responding to what we’re seeing out the window is just like we’re a bunch of kids up here,” Artemis 2 commander Reid Wiseman<\/a> radioed to Mission Control late Sunday (April 5). “We cannot get enough of this. It’s amazing.”<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Watch live! NASA Artemis 2 crew’s historic moon flyby is today – YouTube Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n Wiseman and his Artemis 2 crewmates \u2014 pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen \u2014 will be the first humans to see the moon<\/a> up close since NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972<\/a>.<\/p>\n They are the first astronauts to visit the moon in the 21st century, and they will see parts of the moon that NASA’s Apollo<\/a> astronauts were never able to, like the poles of the far side. They’ll also see a rare solar eclipse from beyond the moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n To help you know what to expect, here’s a timeline of NASA’s Artemis 2 moon flyby day, hour by hour.<\/p>\n Swipe to scroll horizontallyArtemis 2 moon flyby timeline<\/p>\n Time (in EDT\/GMT)<\/p>\n Event<\/p>\n What to know<\/p>\n 10:50 a.m. EDT \/ 1450 GMT<\/p>\n Artemis 2 crew wakes up<\/p>\n This begins Flight Day 6. Flyby day. NASA will play the crew a song.<\/p>\n 1 p.m. EDT \/ 1700 GMT<\/p>\n NASA’s main livestream begins<\/p>\n This is a special broadcast. The 24\/7 feed will transition to this. <\/p>\n 1:56 p.m. EDT \/ 1756 GMT<\/p>\n Artemis 2 surpasses Apollo 13 distance record<\/p>\n The Orion ship will fly farther than Apollo 13, going beyond 248,655 miles from Earth.<\/p>\n 2:10 p.m. EDT \/ 1810 GMT<\/p>\n Artemis 2 crew comments on beating Apollo 13 record<\/p>\n The Artemis 2 crew will comment on their new record, but we’ll get audio only.<\/p>\n 2:15 p.m. EDT \/ 1815 GMT<\/p>\n Orion cabin configured for flyby<\/p>\n The astronauts will darken the cabin lights and prep cameras and other gear.<\/p>\n 2:45 p.m. EDT \/ 1845 GMT<\/p>\n Seven-hour moon flyby observation period begins<\/p>\n The Artemis 2 crew will observe both near and far sides of the moon. The main phase lasts five hours.<\/p>\n 4:35 p.m. EDT \/ 2035 GMT<\/p>\n Interior views of Orion<\/p>\n NASA will show inside views of Orion during the flyby.<\/p>\n Ongoing.<\/p>\n Observations continue. <\/p>\n The crew has 35 targets for 10 science objectives. They may see the Apollo 14 and Apollo 12 landing sites.<\/p>\n 6:44 p.m. EDT \/ 2244 GMT<\/p>\n Loss of signal<\/p>\n NASA will temporarily lose contact with Artemis 2. It should last 40 minutes.<\/p>\n 7:02 p.m. EDT \/ 2307 GMT<\/p>\n Artemis 2 closest to moon<\/p>\n Orion will be about 4,070 miles above the moon at closest approach.<\/p>\n 7:07 p.m. EDT \/ 2307 GMT<\/p>\n Artemis 2 reaches its farthest point from Earth<\/p>\n Orion will be at its farthest from Earth, at about 252,760 miles away.<\/p>\n 7:25 p.m. EDT \/ 2325 GMT<\/p>\n Reacquisition of signal<\/p>\n Mission Control should reacquire signal with Artemis 2.<\/p>\n 8:35 p.m. EDT \/ 0035 GMT on April 7<\/p>\n Artemis 2 sees solar eclipse<\/p>\n The astronauts will see the moon block the sun in a total solar eclipse. It will last 53 minutes. They may also observe Mars, Mercury, Venus and Saturn.<\/p>\n 9:20 p.m. EDT \/ 0120 GMT on April 7<\/p>\n Artemis 2 lunar flyby observation period ends<\/p>\n The flyby observing period ends. The crew begins sending some imagery to Earth. <\/p>\n 9:32 p.m. EDT \/ 0132 GMT April 7<\/p>\n Solar eclipse period ends<\/p>\n The Artemis 2 crew finishes observing the sun’s corona and planets. <\/p>\n 9:45 p.m. EDT \/ 0145 GMT April 7<\/p>\n NASA’s Moon Flyby Livestream ends<\/p>\n NASA’s special Artemis 2 moon flyby commentary ends, but 24\/7 mission coverage continues<\/p>\n 10:50 p.m. EDT \/ 0250 GMT April 7<\/p>\n Artemis 2 crew media event<\/p>\n The astronauts will speak to media or officials on the flyby.<\/p>\n 2:05 a.m. EDT April 7 \/ 0607<\/p>\n Crew Sleep Begins<\/p>\n The Artemis 2 crew settles down to a well deserved rest for the day.<\/p>\n \n A screenshot of the Lunar Targeting Plan application that guides the Artemis 2 astronauts through their lunar science observations. This custom software was built by the crew lunar observations team, a subset of the Artemis 2 lunar science team. (Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n Kelsey Young, Artemis 2 lunar science lead, said NASA has 10 science objectives and 35 different targets<\/a> for the Artemis 2 crew to aim for during the flyby.<\/p>\n The astronauts will work in two-person shifts over five hours of the main flyby period. They’ll use a tablet-based Lunar Targeting Plan app to record voice observations of their targets while also taking potentially thousands of photos of moon craters, plains and mountains.<\/p>\n “We’ve got a jam-packed plan for them tomorrow, and it ultimately all traces down to our objectives,” Young said.<\/p>\n The astronauts have had several opportunities to observe the moon as they closed in on their lunar flyby. Based on their descriptions of the moon<\/a>, NASA’s lunar science team can’t wait to hear the Artemis 2 crew’s observations from today’s flyby.<\/p>\n “They crushed it,” said Jennifer Hellmann, an Artemis 2 science team lead from NASA’s Ames Research Center<\/a> in California. “We were excited for the flyby before, don’t get me wrong. But we are, like, super, super excited now because they’re so good! They’re so well trained; they know what they’re talking about.”<\/p>\n Editor’s note: This story was updated at 10:45 a.m. EDT (1445 GMT) with newly updated times and events for today’s Artemis 2 flyby.<\/p>\n \n <\/a><\/p>\n Lego<\/p>\n Lego Technic Nasa Artemis Space Launch System 42221<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 NASA’s first astronaut close encounter with the moon in over 50 years will become a reality…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-378088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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