Artemis II crew heads back to Earth

Nasa's four Artemis astronauts swung behind the moon and are headed home, in a journey that shattered space travel distance records and brought people the closest they've been to the lunar surface in more than 50 years.

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At their nearest distance to the moon, the Artemis II's Orion capsule came within an estimated 4,067 miles of the lunar surface, according to calculations by Nasa. From the crew’s point of view, the moon would have appeared roughly the size of a basketball in someone