The gravity of their experience hasn't quite set in for the Artemis II astronauts

The Artemis II crew — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen — launched on April 1, 2026, sending the first humans toward the Moon since 1972. During their mission, the crew traveled 248,655 miles from Earth, surpassing the record for human spaceflight's farthest distance previously set by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970, and their lunar flyby images revealed regions no human has seen, including a rare in-space solar eclipse captured during a seven-hour flyby of the lunar far side. From the crew's perspective, the Moon appeared large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth.

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Source: industry