NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft will perform an engine burn when it's just 79 miles (128 kilometers) above the lunar surface on Dec. 5, 2022. Here is a time-lapse shortly before the burn when the spacecraft was about 3,500 miles from the moon.

Credit: NASA | time-lapse by Space.com's [Steve Spaleta](https://twitter.com/stevespaleta)