The four astronauts aboard Nasa’s Artemis II mission are speeding back to Earth after looping around the Moon, a trip that took them 400,000km from home — further than any humans have ever travelled before.
The American and Canadian crew blasted off on Wednesday for the 1mn km, 10-day journey that marked a step towards the US space agency’s plans to establish a long-term presence on the lunar surface. It was Nasa’s first launch of astronauts to the Moon in more than 50 years.
After 40 minutes of radio silence while their Integrity spacecraft rounded the Moon’s far side, which is invisible from Earth, astronaut Christina Koch sent a message to mission control: “Houston, Integrity, comms check.”
您已阅读22%（700字），剩余78%（2462字）包含更多重要信息，订阅以继续探索完整内容，并享受更多专属服务。