On April 6, 2026, four astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, Integrity, swung around the far side of the moon, traveling farther from the Earth than any humans had ever gone before, and taking sp...

Still aglow from their triumphant lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts put in a call to their friends aboard the International Space Station as they headed home from the moon.

The Orion spacecraft's crew lost contact with mission control for 40 minutes as they circled behind the Moon, as was expected.