ISS020-E-024040 (22 July 2009) --- This is an oblique horizon view taken from the Inernational Sapce Station at 220 miles above a partially cloud-covered Earth clearly showing the home planet's atmophere. As the Space Shuttle Endeavour and the orbital outpost are linked together for more than a week, 13 internationally-represented astronauts and cosmonauts continue work toward its completion.

These images show the Orion stage adapter for Artemis II being prepped for shipment and then packaged in a large box, loaded on a semi-truck. It is seen leaving NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as it begins its journey to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Manufactured at Marshall, this adapter for the SLS (Space Launch System) connects the rocket’s interim cryogenic propulsion stage to the Orion spacecraft and is the final piece of SLS hardware to be delivered to Kennedy Space Center in preparation for the Artemis II mission.