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Artemis II nears its finale

Orion faces intense heat, a communications blackout and a parachute descent before splashdown

A view through the spacecraft window, wiht some of the window itself visible. The moon fills the right side of the frame and the smaller Earth is to the left.

A slice of the cratered moon and a small crescent Earth appear out the window of the Orion spacecraft shortly before Earthset on April 6.

NASA

By Lisa Grossman

Editor’s note: This is a developing story that will be updated later today.

Even when you’re one of the first people to go to the moon in half a century, there’s no place like home.