Christina Cook

We will always choose each other.

Homeward bound, the Artemis II astronauts continue to send back dramatic photos of their lunar flyby during a ship-to-ship call with the International Space Station.

Mission specialist Christina Cook described how the Earth looks from her much more distant vantage point.

Artemis II is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego Friday night.

At the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Jonathan Seri, Fox News.

I found myself noticing not only the beauty of the Earth,

but how much blackness there was around it, and how it just made it even more special.

The menu includes a wide variety of foods with things like spicy green beans, tropical fruit salad, and maple cream cookies.

In a NASA video about eating in space, astronaut Christina Cook says foods you wouldn't even imagine being rehydrated are actually good.

NASA's Norm Knight, the director of the Flight Operations Directorate, says NASA tracks each meal to ensure the crew's health.

Each crew member was able to help sample and craft their own menu preferences before launch.

For NPR News, I'm Marion Summerall in Orlando.

It's a lot bigger in 3D when you can float around.

That's what I'm telling myself.

The other day we figured out where we might all hang our sleeping bags.

One person will be bat-like and hang in kind of from, to describe it, in the top part of what you can imagine the capsule shape is, there's a little bit of a little pop-up, a tunnel.

And so that will be where they hang either feet up or head up.

And then the other folks are kind of being more like what you might consider horizontal with what is the bigger base of the capsule or the floor kind of.

That's what I'm saying.

Our primary task is observing, observing the moon in the short period of time that we have our flyby.