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The crew of Artemis II are now further from Earth than any humans before. They just passed a distance of 400,171 kilometers from subearth point. That was the highest altitude reached by the crew of Apollo 13 fiftysix years ago in April 1970.

So cool to be able to track Artemis II live in Orbiter (2016 d3d9 Client)! Thanks for the scenario Ajaja!

If he could see that!

Good luck and godspeed to the crew of Artemis II

I was able to achieve a good* LOI (burn) pretty much on every Apollo mission using the LTMFD (LunarTransferMFD) LOI program with AMSO 1.23 in Orbiter 2016 with the full stack (CSM+LM). * in terms of resulting apolune and perilune Get LTMFD here...

Lunar Module Challenger with CDR Gene Cernan and LMP Jack Schmitt onboard descending towards Taurus-Littrow valley.

Last one (for today... :) ). LMP Schmitt and CDR Cernan (Apollo 17) heading back to their lunar rover after exploring station 2 during EVA-2 near Nansen crater at the foot of the South Massif. The shallow ridge rising beyond the rover belongs to the terrain of the Lee-Lincoln Scarp which is a...

John Young and Charlie Duke concluding their first EVA at the Descartes landing site. Stone Mountain in the background. Thanks to Kuddel for helping with a new modified surface microtexture!

Apollo 17. Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt at station 2 during their second EVA in the valley of Taurus-Littrow. The North Massif (right), Family mountain (left of center) and the slope of the South Massif (far left) can be seen in the distance. Nansen crater visible beyond the lunar rover. LRV...

Yes, disabled them for the time being, still trying to find a solution for only the lowest level texture (D3D9Moon_A.dds ) to render the shadows of its alpha channel onto my global moon texture.

Amazing how it is possible to get the same Lunar Module attitude (roll left and pitched up about 8 degrees) when placing the "Falcon" of Apollo 15 at the precise landing coordinates in Orbiter. Start of the first surface EVA. (O2016Beta + D3D9Client + Apollo landing site addon and AMSO with...

Apollo 17, loading the lunar rover for the first traverse of EVA-1 to station 1 near Steno crater. North Massif in the background. (AMSO 1.23, O2016beta+D3D9Client, AMSO with modified textures and materials)

Hi everyone! Recently I am slowly getting back to Orbiter after a long hiatus. I am using mostly an installation of Orbiter 2016 beta [190914] with the D3D9 Client R30.7. I initially installed an older version of the D3D9 Client into this Orbiter installation and later "overwrote" the folder...

Coming back to this... has anyone ever read if martins has completed this new, improved elevation map? :unsure:

Wow! First image (4k) from the surface of the Moon near its south pole. From the toppled over Athena. Bittersweet but what a photo!