The Artemis II team broke the previous record set by 1970's Apollo 13 mission, which they are expected to surpass by approximately 4,105 miles. The astronauts are journeying around the Moon, in which they'll spend more than six hours analyzing and documenting lunar surface features.

The astronauts will arrive about 10,300 kilometers beyond our satellite, breaking all previous records for distance from Earth. But how was their route chosen?

NASA announced Saturday that the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission were closer to moon than to the Earth.