See video of Earthset that an Artemis II astronaut filmed on his iPhone while circling the moon

SpaceSee video of Earthset that an Artemis II astronaut filmed on his iPhone while circling the moon"Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos," Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman wrote about the video.Listen to this article with a free account00:0000:00Add NBC News to GoogleReid Wiseman captures view of Earthset during Artemis II mission00:46Get more newsLiveonShareAdd NBC News to GoogleApril 20, 2026, 1:32 PM EDTBy Denise ChowIt’s a view that only a handful of humans have ever witnessed: a distant Earth disappearing behind a huge moon.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded the Artemis II mission around the moon, posted a spectacular video on X of Earthset from the lunar far side, showing our home planet fading out of view.“Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos,” Wiseman wrote about the video, which he filmed out the window of the Orion spacecraft. He described the experience as “only one chance in this lifetime.”Wiseman and his crewmates, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, launched toward the moon on April 1. They spent 10 days circling Earth and the moon then returned home on April 10, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.During the mission, the Artemis II astronauts became the first people to see much of the lunar far side — the side of the moon that permanently faces away from Earth — with their own eyes.Wiseman said he “couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset” while traveling around the moon on April 6. The video shows close-up details of the moon’s crater-filled surface.“I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window,” Wiseman wrote, “but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye.”As...