The Artemis II crew is preparing to surpass the Apollo 13 record for the furthest distance humans have traveled from Earth as the Orion spacecraft enters the moon's gravitational sphere.Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen will perform a six-hour flyby of the lunar far side to observe the Orientale and Hertzsprung basins while experiencing a brief communication blackout.The historic
NASA mission utilizes a free-turn trajectory to slingshot the spacecraft back toward a planned splashdown near San Diego following detailed geological documentation of the lunar surface.