The Artemis II crew go further than any humans before in Nasa's first crewed mission to the Moon in over 50 years.
The spacecraft was not planning to land on the Moon but fly around its far side, the side which is never visible from Earth. Satellites have photographed the far side before, but the astronauts were the first human eyes to see some parts of the far side's surface and its vast craters and lava plains.
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