Th Artemis II mission will take four astronauts thousands of miles beyond the moon before the Orion spacecraft makes a U-turn and heads back to Earth on an approximately 10-day journey. The launch countdown is already underway at Kennedy Space Center in Florida,

NASA have revealed that the crew of Artemis II are now more than halfway to the moon.

Commander Reid Wiseman took the photographs after a crucial engine burn sent the spacecraft hurtling towards the Moon, with the crew around 100,000 miles from Earth at the time and rapidly gaining dis...