It is amazing to think that in a couple of years, people will be looking at the same view.
The moon and Earth are far away but visible in the image, which was taken from NASA's un-crewed Orion spacecraft.
The Artemis II mission will send astronauts on a flyby of the moon to within about 80 miles of the lunar surface, and will also include amazing views.
The Artemis II mission is likely to follow the same path as the current one. Humans will be taken to a point about 268,000 miles away from our planet, which is the farthest we have ever traveled. During the Apollo 13 mission in 1970, a human traveled the farthest distance from Earth.
NASA launched its new Space Launch System rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said this week that Artemis has had success because of the can-do spirit. This is a test and it is incredible how smooth this mission has been. We stress it by testing it and testing it.
Jim Free, NASA's associate administrator for exploration systems development, said, "Orion is performing so well we're evaluating adding more test objectives to characterize the spaceship further and reduce risk for future missions."
The Artemis I mission will end in the Pacific Ocean on December 11th.
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