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Orion's interior space is equivalent to that of two minivans, NASA says. That's a lot more breathing room than space capsules of the 1960s and '70s..
The windows on the Orion spacecraft are already dirty. The four astronauts aboard Artemis II spend so much time pressing their faces against the glass to stare back at their home planet that mission commander Reid Wiseman actually radioed Houston to ask for window-cleaning procedures.
The Artemis II launched from Florida, sending a crew of four astronauts on a mission around the moon, but before this could happen the Apollo 17 crew landed on the moon 50 years ago.
On Wednesday, four astronauts blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center for a 10-day trip on the Artemis II mission to orbit the moon, further into space than a
NASA released the first images taken by mission commander Reid Wiseman aboard the Artemis II Orion capsule.