Earthset as Orion Prepares for Outbound Powered Flyby

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The Earth is seen setting from the far side of the Moon just

beyond the Orion spacecraft in this video taken on the sixth

day of the Artemis I mission by a camera on the tip of one of

Orion's solar arrays. The spacecraft was preparing for the

Outbound Powered Flyby maneuver which would bring it within

80 miles of the lunar surface, the closest approach of the

uncrewed Artemis I mission, before moving into a distant

retrograde orbit around the Moon. The spacecraft entered the

lunar sphere of influence Sunday, Nov. 20, making the Moon,

instead of Earth, the main gravitational force acting on the

spacecraft

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