{"id":801540,"date":"2026-04-06T16:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801540"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:58:33","slug":"artemis-ii-astronauts-see-parts-of-the-moon-rarely-seen-by-humans-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801540","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II astronauts see parts of the moon rarely seen by humans : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n In this handout image provided by NASA, a view of the moon taken by an Artemis II crewmember through the window of the Orion spacecraft on Friday, the third day of the mission.
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The four-person crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission are seeing parts of the moon on Monday that human eyes have never seen before.<\/p>\n

The agency’s Orion space capsule launched atop an SLS rocket from the Kennedy Space Center last week and sent humans on a mission to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.<\/p>\n

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Monday’s lunar flyby \u2014 when the astronauts will circle the moon \u2014 will mark the farthest humans have ever traveled into space. At 1:57 p.m. Monday, the astronauts surpassed the Apollo 13 mission’s distance record of 248,655 miles. The flyby, during which the crew will look out the windows and make live observations, will be about seven hours long, according to NASA.<\/p>\n

The astronauts will also have the unique opportunity to observe a solar eclipse from the opposite vantage point, watching the sun disappear behind the moon.<\/p>\n