More than half a century after the ultimate Apollo lunar mission, four astronauts have traveled to the neighborhood of the moon as soon as once more.
NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, together with the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, lifted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center final week for a 10-day journey that has taken them past the far facet of the moon.
Their trajectory through the Artemis II mission took them farther from Earth than any people have traveled earlier than. During a seven-hour flyby on Monday, the astronauts loved views of the lunar surface beforehand unseen by human eyes.
NASA has lengthy billed the Artemis program as a stepping stone for exploring deeper into the cosmos.
Here are among the tales that made headlines over the previous week, in addition to some photographs that caught our eye.