Artemis II crew completes record-breaking trip around the moon
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Their flyby of the moon - NASA's first return since the Apollo era - even included some celestial sightseeing besides yielding rich science
Boldly go where no human has gone before the Artemis two crew made history during their lunar flyby yesterday
And now they're on their way back home. Here's a live look inside the Orion spacecraft. Look, they're up and Adam already
They're all happy. This has been a long journey for them
So if you're a little groggy this morning these people flying up in space, well, they're just doing great
Yeah thumbs up from everyone there
all right, so the four-person crew ventured deeper into space than anyone before traveling
252,000 miles from Earth on April 15th
1970 during the Apollo 13 mission three explorers set the record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from our home planet
Today for all humanity you're pushing beyond that frontier
And to mark that moment right there new NASA images captured by Orion's advanced cameras and the astronauts themselves
Show new views of the lunar surface the crew lost contact with mission control for 40 minutes while passing behind the moon as expected
the Artemis 2 mission lays a groundwork for
Humanity's return to the lunar surface a future moon base and maybe the long road to Mars
The astronauts will return to Earth on Friday splashing down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego