The U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Telescope (NSF GBT) produced these data and images while supporting NASA's Artemis II mission by helping to track the crewed Orion spacecraft throughout its historic journey around the Moon. The NSF GBT conducted five observations over the same number of days, for six hours each day, that the spacecraft was closest to the Moon, and farthest from the Earth at over 200,000 miles away.
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