Record-breaking Astronauts Head Home

Four astronauts on Nasa’s Artemis II mission are on their way back home after a dramatic lunar fly-by that saw them travel further from Earth than any other humans.

The crew lost contact with the Earth, as expected, for 40 minutes as they travelled behind the Moon. 

The Artemis II mission’s spacecraft, Orion, broke the record for human travel at about 1:56 PM on Monday, beating a record of 248,655 miles (400,000km) held since 1970 by the Apollo 13 mission.