As the astronauts aboard Artemis II's Orion flew over the far side of the Moon on April 6, they and the mission's science officers back on Earth couldn't hide their excitement over the steady stream of observations being relayed about the lunar geography.

Follow live updates as NASA's Artemis II crew members circle the moon in the Orion spacecraft. The astronauts lifted off last week and are expected to come within 4,070 miles of the lunar surface.

Turns out the incredible photos taken by the astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft are from the iPhone 17 Pro Max's front-facing camera and not its better rear shooters.

Artemis II astronauts got a special wake-up message from legendary astronaut Jim Lovell, the late commander for the Apollo 13 mission, which he recorded before he died at age 97 last year.

The moving sentiment shows Wiseman loved his spouse, Carroll, “to the moon and back,” one social media user wrote.

The Artemis II astronauts have set up cameras to capture the stages of the eclipse, after earlier losing connection with Nasa for 40 minutes.

The Artemis II crew offically entered a historic communications blackout Monday as their spacecraft slipped behind the Moon's far side, breaking distance records.

The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission aim to travel farther from Earth than any humans ever, similar to the plot of Ryan Gosling's 'Project Hail Mary'