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Humans could well be living on the moon within the next decade, according to a NASA official. The Artemis rocket, which carries ...

The Moon could be hosting humans for lengthy stays on its surface as early as in this decade, a NASA official has claimed.

As it heads for the Moon, NASA's Orion space capsule is sending back snapshots of Earth that evoke the "blue marble" pictures taken by Apollo astronauts five decades earlier.

NASA has shared the first images from its Orion spacecraft, which is expected to do a lunar flyby on November 21.

Hello, world! We're going on a trip to the moon! NASA's Artemis 1 mission is a success. The space agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket has successfully deployed NASA's Orion spacecraft on the moon.

NASAs Artemis mission is on the right path, as Orion shared its first picture of Earth as it heads to the moon at more than 5,000 miles per hour. The capsule launched at 1:47am ET.

Artemis 1 has sent home its first stunning image from what will be a 25-day mission through deep space.

Equipped with multiple cameras, Orion is expected to capture many new high-resolution photos of the Earth and Moon.

If all goes well during the three-week flight, the rocket will propel an empty crew capsule into a wide orbit around the moon, before the capsule returns to Earth with a splashdown in the Pacific in December.

There are 24 cameras on the rocket and spacecraft – eight on SLS and 16 on Orion – to document essential mission events including liftoff, ascent, solar array deployment