Artemis II astronauts fly around Moon
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The Artemis II crew will travel farther than any human before. Here's everything you need to know about the historic moment.
“The dark side of the moon”: The term has a poetic ring. It has long been mined in popular culture, not least by Pink Floyd, the English band whose so-named top-selling semi-psychedelic rock album cemented the term in the 1970s.
A floating Nutella jar aboard NASA's Artemis II went viral, with internet users calling the zero-gravity moment the greatest free advertisement in history.
The first humans to travel around the moon in more than 50 years experience hours of scientific wonder — and moments of deep emotion.
The astronauts will head into a communications blackout at 6:44 p.m. Eastern time as they become the first people to travel around the moon since 1972.
Viewers can watch NASA’s Artemis II making a lunar flyby on Monday, carrying astronauts farther from Earth than ever before.
The moon looks to most amateur photographers like a bright detail on a completely dark background, and it appears to be about half the width if one fingernail on an outstretched hand. That makes it tricky to shoot with an iPhone, as anyone who has ever tried it can attest.
The Artemis II crew enters a historic communications blackout Monday as their spacecraft slips behind the Moon's far side, breaking distance records.