NASA’s Artemis II astronauts reached a record distance from Earth, marking a major milestone as they prepare to fly around the Moon’s far side.

The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission reached the furthest point that any human has been from Earth ‌on Monday, cruising along a path in the Moon's gravitational sphere of influence that will soon take them over the shadowed, lunar far side. The Artemis II crew, flying in their…

NASA’s Artemis II astronauts reached a record distance from Earth, marking a major milestone as they prepare to fly around the Moon’s far side.

NASA’s Artemis II astronauts reached a record distance from Earth, marking a major milestone as they prepare to fly around the Moon’s far side.

April 6 (UPI) -- Artemis II astronauts have reached the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from Earth.

While looping around the moon, the four astronauts aboard the Orion capsule surpass Apollo 13's record, journeying over 250,000 miles away from home

Astronauts honor Reid Wiseman's late wife by naming a lunar crater "Carroll" during historic Artemis II mission.

Mrs Carroll Taylor Wiseman - wife of mission commander Reid Wiseman - died of cancer in 2020. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

HOUSTON: The Artemis astronauts entered the final phase of their run-up to a lunar loop on Monday (Apr 5), a tipping point of sorts that means the Moon's gravity is now having a stronger pull on the spacecraft than Earth's.The Orion capsule will now whip around the Moon, setting the crew up to travel farther

Artemis II Astronauts On Lunar Flyby Travel Farthest Into Space Than Any Human

And there's more to come.

The six-hour flyby is the highlight of Nasa’s first return to the Moon since the Apollo era

It’s official Artemis II Breaks Distance Record as Humans Travel the Farthest Ever from Earth.

The toilet on board the Artemis II spacecraft has reportedly broken down again, leaving the four-member crew without a working alternative for nearly five days.

On April 6, 2026, the Artemis 2 crew broke down in tears aboard Orion while proposing to name an unnamed lunar crater after their commander's late wife, who died of cancer in 2020. The crew also broke the 56-year-old human distance record set by Apollo 13, travelling 4,06,773 kilometres from Earth.

Taking time out to send Easter greetings down to Earth, the four Artemis 2 astronauts closed in on the moon Sunday, already seeing unexpected detail on the surface and giving scientists a taste of things to come during a pass over the lunar far side Monday evening.

The Artemis II crew are the first people in history to view the far side of the moon with the naked human eye. On Monday, the four-person crew featuring astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christi...

NASA mission control in Houston regained communications with Artemis astronauts traveling around the Moon after an expected blackout that lasted some 40 minutes.

For the first time in over half a century, astronauts are once again traveling through lunar space, as NASA’s Artemis 2 mission continues its historic journey around the Moon. The mission’s Orion spacecraft entered the Moon’s sphere of influence at 12:37 a.

NASA's Artemis astronauts are now entering "the lunar sphere of influence," reports NBC News, "meaning the pull of the moon's gravity will become stronger than Earth's." Now as they begin their swing around the moon, the Artemis astronauts "are chasing after Apollo 13's maximum range from Earth," ...

The Artemis II crew enters a historic communications blackout Monday as their spacecraft slips behind the Moon's far side, breaking distance records.

The Artemis II mission has made history, with its crew becoming the farthest humans to travel from Earth, surpassing a record set more than five decades ago. At 1:57 PM ET on Monday, astronauts...

With the moon now filling their windows, the Artemis II astronauts set a record Monday as the farthest humans from Earth during a lunar flyby promising magnificent views of the far side never before w

Astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis II mission will make history Monday as they complete a flyby of the moon, traveling farther from Earth than any humans before them.

For the Orion spacecraft and its crew, the moon's gravitational pull is now stronger than Earth's. The crew will reach its closest point to the moon later Monday.