North America
Artemis II Crew Makes History in Space
The Artemis II Crew, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, made history on Monday, April 6, becoming the first people to travel 252,756 miles from Earth. During a planned 40-minute communications blackout with NASA, they completed their lunar flyby, also becoming the first people to observe certain regions of the far side of the Moon.