We’ll get eyes on the moon, kind of map it out and then continue to go back in force,” said flight director Judd Frieling.

The four astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission are currently more than 252,000 miles from Earth — farther than any human has ever traveled in the history of mankind. But the

Artemis II astronauts have looped farther from Earth than any humans before, surpassing the Apollo 13 distance record on their journey around the Moon. Join CBS News Miami as we follow their groundbreaking mission,

The Orion ship transporting the Artemis II crew in their moon flyby is poised to travel beyond Apollo 13’s distance record, set in 1970.

The Artemis II astronauts have broken a record set by NASA's Apollo 13 astronauts. Once they arrive at the moon late Monday, the crew will loop about 4,000 miles from the lunar surface.

It's a beautiful sight." The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission are now closer to the moon than they are to Earth, the first time humans have even approached the moon for more than half a century.

Artemis II on Monday broke the Apollo 13 mission's record for farthest distance humans have travelled from Earth as the crew looped around the far side of the moon. Mark Strassmann reports.

The Artemis II mission performs a historic lunar flyby, setting a new record for human distance from Earth. Fox News' Jonathan Serrie reports the latest on the mission and NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick also provides his analysis.