Florian Engels

🚨: CONFIRMED SEPARATION! The powerful Orion spacecraft of the Artemis II mission has been precisely released from the SLS upper stage, paving its way toward its historic rendezvous with the Moon. Tomorrow, humanity will take a giant leap: Orion will perform the first crewed lunar flyby in over half a century. The era of returning to the Moon has begun!

Artemis II Captures a Rare Full View of the Orientale Basin from Lunar Orbit 🌌🌕

#ArtemisII's Orion is now approaching the Moon. Tomorrow, April 6th it will be the rendezvous and the single circle around it. #MoonRace

A Sparkling Celestial Jewel. This gorgeous image showcases the globular cluster Terzan 9, shimmering within the constellation Sagittarius, near the Milky Way’s core. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen)

✅#Artemis II update: Day 5, Orion is moving at 1536 km/h, 356 379 km from Earth and 89 967 km from the Moon. One last look at Earth before arriving at the Moon (pic: NASA). See nasa.gov/missions/artem…

Launch Abort System (LAS) Abwurf bei #ArtemisI und #ArtemisII im syncronisierten Vergleich 👀 Onboard Ansicht 📸 @NASAArtemis #SLS

🚨: The Moon is getting bigger and bigger......... just 113,000 miles left! Image Credit: Artemis II crew

Another view of service module fairing jettison. You can see one panel get pushed by the core stage exhaust. #ArtemisII

Earth, Jupiter and Venus seen from Mars.😮 225 million miles away from us.

Farewell World. After yeterday's stunning "Hello World" photo, Christina Koch is seen here gazing out of the window as Earth gets smaller. Neil Armstrong once said there's no feeling of motion (there's no wind resistance of course) and Earth simply sinks into the inky blackness.

We live in the future. A quiet moment on a spaceship heading to the moon.

The #NASA #ArtemisII crew of Reid, Victor, Christina & Jeremy are past the midway point to the moon at over 161,700 miles away from Earth by the morning of April 4th 2026 with a fly by of the dark side of the moon on April 6th with a farthest distance record by any human.

Good morning, world! 🌎 We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon.

🚨: Two different photos of our home taken by humans half a century apart! Left - Apollo 17, 1972 Right - Artemis II, 2026

Lock in, we’re Moonbound. Artemis II astronauts are more than halfway to their destination, and preparations for lunar flyby are underway. During their trip around the far side of the Moon, they will capture imagery to share with scientists (and you, too!).

Closer to the moon! LFG!!!

NOIRLab: Early Data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Reveals Over 11,000 New Asteroids noirlab.edu/public/news/no…

Incredible! VISTA’s infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula (Credit: ESO, J. Emerson, VISTA - Acknowledgment- Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)

@DJSnM @NASA @FelixSchlang @Erdayastronaut @NASASpaceflight ..an alle die hier heftig diskutieren: ☝️ Hier eine bessere Version für Euch 🫡 x.com/FloSpacenerd/s…

This is a wild moment inside the cockpit, just 2 minutes after leaving Florida. At 150,000 feet, the sky was gone from light blue to black, and the ride on the huge, solid rockets has been violent, jamming us up through the air. Suddenly there's a blast of pyrotechnics. Even though we're going Mach 5, the air is so thin the explosion arches out in front of the windows. Now being pushed by just the 3 Shuttle engines, the ride goes smooth, with a huge feeling of relief - getting rid of those solids means you're much safer, and halfway to orbit. I've done it twice. Atlantis and Endeavour. A great start to an amazing adventure.