The astronauts of Artemis II flew further from Earth than any human beings before them, breaking Apollo 13’s distance record at 1.57pm ET on Monday.
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Across a six-hour flyby, on the sixth day of a lunar mission that has reinvigorated Nasa’s space exploration programme, the crew of the Orion spacecraft captured views of the moon’s far side that have never been seen before
Blackouts, broken records and a message from the past: five key moments from Artemis II’s lunar flyby ► https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/07/artemis-ii-lunar-flyby-blackouts-five-key-moments
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