Watch NASA's Artemis 1 Spacecraft, Moon and Earth In Same Shot During Close Approach

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See footage Orion Spacecraft, moon and Earth shortly before its "outbound powered flyby burn".  Orion was less than 2000 miles away from the moon and over 200,000 miles away from Earth.   Credit: Credit: NASA / edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta

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00:00And here you are looking at a live view of the Orion spacecraft from the solar array wing with the Moon in the distance of the screen,

00:12the Earth in the distant frame of the screen, and the Moon up close.

00:17Again, we are now less than 2,000 miles away from the Moon, but over 200,000 miles away from planet Earth.

00:30Orion started its journey five days ago from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it launched aboard the Space Launch System.

00:41Orion has been traveling to the Moon ever since, performing checkouts of its systems, as this is an uncrewed test flight.

00:51It's critical that NASA tests out the hardware and systems aboard Orion ahead of flying a crew on board Artemis II.

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