ALT Rise and Christina Koch smile through a small window in the Orion spacecraft. Rise is a small, round Moon plush, with a constant smile and a baseball cap that looks like Earth. Christina is holding Rise up to the window with a smile on her face and her hair floating behind her. Orion is oriented sideways, with the white bottom of the spacecraft toward the left, and the dark-tiled top end of the spacecraft oriented to the right. The spacecraft fills the full image, but the windows are small. Several more windows and the hatch are also visible. Credit: NASA

ALT Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew\u2019s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth\u2019s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region.\nIn the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater\u2019s formation. Credit: NASA

ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman