\u201cLike watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos,\u201d Wiseman wrote about the video<\/a>, which he filmed out the window of the Orion spacecraft. He described the experience as \u201conly one chance in this lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n Wiseman and his crewmates, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, launched toward the moon on April 1<\/a>. They spent 10 days circling Earth and the moon then returned home on April 10, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean<\/a> off the coast of San Diego.<\/p>\n During the mission, the Artemis II astronauts became the first people to see much of the lunar far side \u2014 the side of the moon that permanently faces away from Earth \u2014 with their own eyes.<\/p>\n Wiseman said he \u201ccouldn\u2019t resist a cell phone video of Earthset\u201d while traveling around the moon on April 6. The video shows close-up details of the moon\u2019s crater-filled surface<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window,\u201d Wiseman wrote, \u201cbut the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view\u2026this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye.\u201d<\/p>\n As Wiseman was capturing cellphone footage of Earthset, his fellow crew members were also busy snapping photos and recording observations about the moon\u2019s impact craters and rugged topography.<\/p>\n \u201cYou 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,\u201d Wiseman wrote on X, referring to Koch.<\/p>\n Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon in this photo that the Artemis II crew captured from the Orion spacecraft on April 6. (NASA)<\/p>\n (NASA)<\/p>\n The astronauts spent about seven hours taking photos and gathering observations during the lunar flyby. The photos from the mission<\/a> released thus far have included stunning views of the moon\u2019s terrain, with Earth in the distance. Many more images are expected to be publicly released in the coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n Wiseman\u2019s Earthset video is a nod to the iconic Earthrise photo taken during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968. The Apollo 8 photo, however, showed Earth re-emerging into view, rather than disappearing, as astronauts Bill Anders, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell circled the moon.<\/p>\n On Dec. 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission, the Earth rose into view over the moon’s limb. (William Anders \/ NASA)<\/p>\n (William Anders)<\/p>\n Artemis II was NASA\u2019s first mission to the moon in more than 50 years. Wiseman, Koch, Glover and Hansen were the first people to launch aboard the agency\u2019s Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule.<\/p>\n The agency is focused next on the Artemis III mission, which is expected to launch in mid-2027. The plan calls for the crew \u2014 which has not yet been announced \u2014 to stay in low-Earth orbit<\/a> to conduct technology demonstrations with commercially built moon landers from SpaceX or Blue Origin, ahead of a planned moon landing during the Artemis IV mission in 2028. NASA intends for one of those landers to dock with the Orion capsule in lunar orbit, then carry astronauts to the lunar surface.<\/p>\n![\"Earth](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/447d673cbffd713e692937772b721812.jpeg\"\/)
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