Artemis 2 astronauts saw a rare solar eclipse while in space
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The four-person Artemis II crew returned to Earth on Friday, bringing home a vast wealth of research for scientists to explore. The crew, featuring astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen,
WASHINGTON — The crew of the Artemis II mission made history yet again on Monday, when the four astronauts aboard the Orion looped around the moon at the farthest distance from Earth ever traveled by humans and witnessed a total solar eclipse.
On April 8, 2024, people across the world witnessed a solar eclipse, a relatively rare event in which the moon occults (blocks out) light from the sun. To capture this event, volunteers at 143 observatories across the U.S. trained their equipment on it as ...