The Artemis II astronauts are on their way to the Moon after making a successful six-minute burn to take them out of the Earth’s atmosphere. Nasa’s live feed from a camera mounted outside Orion showed the Earth moving further away and the Sun shining in the distance as the capsule flew around 100 miles over the surface.

Artemis II lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, sending four astronauts on a 10-day mission into deep space, around the moon, and back to Earth.

When NASA deliberately crashed part of Apollo 12 into the Moon, the result sounded almost impossible: the Moon seemed to “ring like a bell” for nearly an hour. That strange reaction helped fuel decades of hollow-Moon theories,

Spread the loveThe China National Space Administration (CNSA) has marked a significant milestone in its ambitious lunar exploration program with the successful landing of the Chang’e-8 lunar base module on March 27,