Amid ongoing toilet trouble, the Artemis II astronauts reflected on the wonder of sailing through deep space to the moon.

The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission passed the halfway point of their voyage to the moon. As of 9 A.M. EDT on April 4, the Orion spacecraft was more than 160,000 miles from Earth, less

The Artemis II crew has crossed the halfway mark on its journey to the moon, with NASA releasing new imagery Saturday morning on X as the four astronauts prepare for a historic flyaround that will take them farther from Earth than any human has traveled in more than half a century.

The toilet malfunction happened hours after Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft lifted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center Wednesday with four astronauts on board, part of NASA’s efforts to return humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

A closer look at astronaut training for Artemis 2 reveals how everyday tasks like hygiene are handled in space, as NASA prepares its crew for a historic lunar flyby mission

While a new milestone for NASA, the Artemis II mission won’t break the record for the farthest that a human-rated spacecraft has ever traveled into space: In 2022, the same Orion module — with no astronauts aboard — had traveled 268,563 miles from Earth during an uncrewed Artemis I test mission around the moon.

This afternoon, as part of the Artemis II mission, a 322-foot rocket is set to lift off, sending a crew of Americans and a Canadian on a 10-day journey around the moon and back. No landing this time, but they’ll push farther from Earth than any humans ever have.

NASA's Artemis II crew launched on the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, sending four astronauts around the moon aboard the Orion spacecraft.

New images from inside the Orion capsule show the Artemis II crew smiling and speaking with Mission Control just moments before leaving Earth’s orbit. NASA confirms the spacecraft has now begun its journey toward the moon,