As the Artemis crew completed five days in space and shared more spectacular images of Earth, their Orion spacecraft entered the moon’s sphere of influence, where the moon’s gravity became the dominan...

The Artemis II crewed lunar mission lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 1.

As of 10:20 a.m. ET on Monday, April 6, the Artemis II crew is over 244,500 miles from Earth, hurtling through space at 1,161 mph towards the moon, according to NASA's Artemis II tracker.