Overview
- The four-person crew completed a seven-hour pass around the Moon’s far side before turning Orion back toward Earth.
- NASA said the spacecraft surpassed Apollo 13’s 400,171-kilometer record for the farthest humans have traveled from Earth.
- The astronauts captured the first full human view of Mare Orientale, a large multi‑ring impact basin on the Moon’s far side.
- Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Jeremy Hansen are documenting lunar terrain and testing Orion’s orange life-support suits.
- The 10-day mission does not include a landing and marks the first crewed trip to the Moon’s vicinity since 1972 to prepare for future landings.