Solar Eclipse from Lunar Orbit: "Earth's Diamond Ring" | Japan SELENE Mission FriendsofNASA.org: This is the kind of spectacular view astronauts will enjoy on NASA's Artemis missions to the Moon. Scheduled to launch in 2025, Artemis II will be the first crewed flight since the Apollo missions. During a roughly ten-day mission, NASA's Orion spacecraft will loop around the Moon before heading back to Earth. Japan's robotic lunar orbiter SELENE Mission: "The largest lunar mission since the Apollo p