April 7 (UPI) -- The four-astronaut Artemis II crew was heading home early Tuesday on the final leg of its 10-day voyage after completing a historic lunar flyby capped by a phone call from President Donald Trump.

In a historic milestone for space exploration, NASA’s Artemis II astronauts are heading back to Earth after a groundbreaking journey around the far side of the Moon, marking humanity’s return to deep space since the Apollo era.

In a historic milestone for space exploration, NASA’s Artemis II astronauts are heading back to Earth after a groundbreaking journey around the far side of the Moon, marking humanity’s return to deep space since the Apollo era.

Astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis II mission will make history Monday as they complete a flyby of the moon, traveling farther from Earth than any humans before them.