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  "textContent": "Having completed its mission, Artemis II is headed home.\n\nBut not before capturing — 175 gigabytes worth of — breathtaking views from the far side of the moon.\n\nImages were released on Tuesday by NASA.\n\nMore about this process can be found here.\n\nNASA says a handful of these images show something called Earthset, where Earth dips below the lunar horizon.\n\n“Parts of Australia & Oceania are visible, while the dark side of Earth is experiencing nighttime,” the official NASA post reads.\n\n### Artemis II makes history\n\nThe crew made history by traveling deeper into space than any humans before.\n\n> Yesterday, four astronauts on Artemis II traveled farther than any humans in history.\n>\n> Thanks to @NASA and incredible American ingenuity. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/SaHZUxXuz5\n>\n> — The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 7, 2026\n\nFrom NASA Mission Control, President Donald Trump on Tuesday congratulated the astronauts, “today you’ve made history, circling around the Moon for the first time in more than half a century and breaking the all-time record for the farthest distance from planet Earth.”\n\nHere’s the full conversation between the president and the astronauts:\n\n> FROM THE OVAL OFFICE TO ORBIT.\n>\n> President Donald J. Trump speaks with the Artemis II astronauts leading America back to the Moon. 🇺🇸 To infinity... and beyond. 🌕🚀 pic.twitter.com/KViZ7dKEWy\n>\n> — The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 7, 2026\n\nThe crew had another conversation up in space, this time with fellow astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nIt marks the first moonship-to-spaceship radio linkup ever, as reported by The Associated Press.\n\nHouston’s Mission Control arranged the call.\n\n### Another touching storyline\n\nIn an emotional video from onboard the spacecraft, crew members chose to name a previously unnamed crater on the moon after Cmdr. Reid Wiseman’s wife, Carroll, who died of cancer in 2020.\n\nThe crater is described as a bright spot on the moon and is said to be visible from Earth at certain times during the year.\n\nWiseman has two daughters.\n\n> In an emotional moment broadcast live from the Orion spacecraft, the Artemis II crew chose to name a Moon crater “Carroll\" after commander Reid Wiseman's wife, who died of cancer in 2020.\n>\n> “It's a bright spot on the Moon. And we would like to call it Carroll.\" pic.twitter.com/3p220FdaV7\n>\n> — CBS News (@CBSNews) April 6, 2026",
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