Chapter 03 of 10 · April 3, 2026

Artemis II “Hello, World” Photos of the Whole Earth

The translunar burn. Earth falls away in the window — the first time humans have seen it whole since Apollo 17.

When: April 3, 2026 at 00:00 UTC to April 3, 2026 at 06:00 UTC · mission time T+01d 01:25:00 to T+01d 07:25:00
Photos here: 3
Translunar injection: Orion fires toward the Moon on a free-return path. April 3, 2026 at 00:12 UTC

Photos from Hello, world

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A sliver of sunlit Earth, minutes after the burn that sent Orion to the Moon Artemis II photo ART002-E-192: Hello, world.” Earth upside-down: northern Africa, Spain, the Atlantic and two green auroras