HOUSTON: The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission flew on Monday to the deepest point in space reached by any human, sailing along a path of lunar gravitational pull en route to a first-ever crewed flyby over the perpetually shadowed far side of the moon. The Artemis II crew, riding in their Orion capsule since launching from Florida last week, began their sixth day of spaceflight as they awoke at around 10:50 a.m. ET to a recorded message from the late NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who flew aboard the Cold War-era Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 moon missions.

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.

The Artemis II astronauts are more than halfway to the moon.

Nasa team get deeper into space than any humans have ever ventured

The astronauts will enter the 'lunar sphere of influence' overnight on Sunday, setting a record by venturing farther from Earth than any human before.

Astronauts on Nasa’s Orion capsule made transition about 39,000 miles from the moon, meaning they feel its gravitational pull more strongly than that of the Earth

The four crew members of the Artemis II mission entered the moon's sphere of influence early Monday, marking the start of their lunar flyby.

Four astronauts are set to become Earth’s farthest travelled and exceed a 1970 record on the fifth day of the mission

The Artemis II crew flew further than any human has ever travelled – surpassing the Apollo 13 record by 4,101 miles

The Artemis II astronauts have travelled further from Earth than any humans before, completing a historic fly-by of the Moon.

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…

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…

HOUSTON: The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission flew on Monday to the deepest point in space reached by any human, sailing along a path of lunar gravitational pull en…

Crew of Orion capsule spent emotional day documenting surface of moon – and paying homage to astronauts who paved the way

The Artemis II crew go further than any humans before in Nasa's first crewed mission to the Moon in over 50 years.

The four astronauts of Nasa's Artemis II mission reached a record-breaking distance from Earth on Monday, 6 April, as they flew deeper into space than any humans before them. The…

The astronauts of Artemis II flew further from Earth than any human before them

Astronauts onboard the Orion spacecraft break the record for the farthest distance humans have travelled from Earth – 5,000 miles (8,000km) beyond the moon – exceeding the…