“I should have gotten a different lens,” an astronaut aboard the International Space Station lamented while flying over the Artemis launch pad in Florida.

Chris Williams is currently the only American astronaut in space after NASA’s Crew-11 was evacuated for medical reasons last week.

Williams took this photo of Artemis II as the ISS flew over Kennedy Space Center last weekend. This historic space mission take humans to the moon For the first time in 50 years.

The 98-meter-long rocket flew at a snail’s pace from the vehicle assembly building at Kennedy Space Center. The four-mile (six-kilometer) journey began at dawn and lasted until sunset.

“This weekend I took photos of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center,” Williams said. Say this in X. “This isn’t my best photo (I should have used a different lens), but it’s special. If you zoom in on the launch pad on the far right, you can see a shadow just to the left of the center of the launch pad. That shadow is from the rocket (and launch tower) that will soon take four friends on a trip around the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis program. This weekend was a rocket launch, and just as we arrived at the pad, we passed over Florida.”

The Artemis II rocket arrived at the launch pad on Saturday with the Space Launch System. It could be launched to the moon as early as February 6th. Astronauts Reid Williams, Victor Glover and Christina Koch of NASA and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency will become the first humans to orbit the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. Glover will be the first person of color, Koch will be the first woman, and Hansen will be the first non-American to leave low Earth orbit.

The flight will take the crew farther from Earth than any previous manned mission and re-enter Earth’s atmosphere at a record speed of about 25,000 miles per hour (40,000 kilometers per hour).

Image credits: NASA / Chris Williams