Mission specialist Christina Koch and Commander Reed Wiseman had already surprised the public with their epic Earth photos taken from the Orion spacecraft’s main hatch. While he shared a gallery of shots taken with Nikon DSLRs and GoPro action cameras, it was his “selfie” taken with the front-facing camera of the iPhone 17 Pro Max that captured everyone’s imagination.
How do you keep on top of that? On Sunday, Wiseman shared video of a scene that no human had ever shared before. No big deal, it’s just “EarthSat’s Cell Phone Video”, showing our humble blue planet setting behind the Moon.
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Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching a sunset on the beach from the most alien seat in the universe, I couldn’t resist Earthsat’s cell phone video. This is how you can hear the shutter on a Nikon @astro_christina 3-Shot is hammering the brackets and capturing them… pic.twitter.com/8aWnaFJ69c
– Reid Wiseman (@astro_reid) 19 April 2026
“I could barely see the moon through the docking hatch window,” Wiseman said in a post on Enjoy.
As people were left stunned, the footage immediately went viral with likes, reposts and comments pouring in from all over the world.
This video is breaking the internet for good reason—it’s as authentic as it gets. The footage is unedited and there is no music. There is no polish in it. Just an astronaut zooming in on the moon through Orion’s window, blurry autofocusing and all, as the iPhone 17 Pro Max’s 8x optical-quality telephoto locks on to the celestial bodies.
Wiseman’s honest response made the moment even more interesting. “Will you see that, man? Wow. Man… No way. Finn,” he said before Earth disappeared behind the moon’s surface.
Man, we would have reacted the exact same way.
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