As the Artemis crew completed five days in space and shared more spectacular images of Earth, their Orion spacecraft entered the moon’s sphere of influence, where the moon’s gravity became the dominan...

The Artemis II crew will travel farther from Earth than any astronauts before them.

At 1:46 p.m. ET, the crew will surpass the record for the farthest distance traveled from Earth by humans, which was set by the Apollo 13 mission at 248,655 statute miles from Earth.