More than half a century after the final Apollo lunar mission, four astronauts have traveled to the vicinity of the moon once again.
NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center last week for a 10-day journey that has taken them beyond the far side of the moon.
Their trajectory during the Artemis II mission took them farther from Earth than any humans have traveled before. During a seven-hour flyby on Monday, the astronauts enjoyed views of the lunar surface previously unseen by human eyes.
NASA has long billed the Artemis program as a stepping stone for exploring deeper into the cosmos.
Here are some of the stories that made headlines over the past week, as well as some photos that caught our eye.
