NASA's Artemis 2 mission launched on Wednesday (April 1) at 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 GMT) from Florida's Space Coast, sending four people to Earth orbit aboard an Orion capsule.

Four astronauts embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon Wednesday in the Artemis II.

The astronauts were more than 90,000 miles out of Earth’s atmosphere when the images were snapped.