Artemis II breaks human distance record

The Orion spacecraft reached a maximum distance of over 250,000 miles from Earth on Monday, marking a pivotal achievement for the first crewed lunar mission in over half a century.

During the mission, Commander Reid Wiseman and his crew named a lunar crater 'Carroll' in a moving tribute to his late wife.

The mission includes a scheduled 40-minute communications blackout as the capsule slingshots behind the moon's shadowed hemisphere.

This flight serves as a critical systems test before NASA attempts to return humans to the lunar surface in the coming years.