The Artemis 2 astronauts have passed the halfway point between Earth and the moon on Saturday as they sped toward a planned lunar flyby, with NASA releasing initial images of Earth taken from inside the ...

NASA’s online dashboard showed early today that the Orion spacecraft carrying the astronauts was more than 229,000km from Earth.

Artemis II is now closer to the Moon than the Earth. The astronauts on board have sent back eye-catching photos of our planet, and fixed a malfunctioning toilet along the way.

The milestone was hit around two days after liftoff. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Artemis II astronauts reach halfway to the Moon, with the lunar flyby milestone celebrated by mission control.

Just a day and a half into the first crewed moon mission in over 50 years, NASA’s Artemis II astronauts sent back photos of Earth from space.