Selfie time!!! My crew snapped this photo of me and my bestie @Astro_Christina using one of the solar array wing cameras on our Orion spacecraft!
— NASA Artemis (@NASAArtemis) April 8, 2026
When we're not taking selfies, we take pictures of the Moon and Earth and record what we see for scientists back home. -Rise pic.twitter.com/NPa6FPM2fe
I love this crew's fun spirit.
Speaking of which, that shot reminded me of the Spirit of 76 mission during Gemini, so called because Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 conducted the first rendezvous in space. During those days, interservice rivalry was a pretty big part of astronauts' jokes and gibes (still is?), and the crews on this mission were mixed: Schirra, Stafford, and Lovell were Naval Academy grads, whilst Borman was a West Pointer...
...so naturally Wally and Tom had to prank Frank with a BEAT ARMY sign in their window (a couple weeks earlier, the Army-Navy game ended in a 7-7 tie).
Now Artemis II also got some rendezvous practice with the ICPS (interim cryogenic propulsion stage), but the rocket stage did not express as much 'tude...
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