The four astronauts of the Artemis 2 mission are now halfway between the Earth and the Moon and continue to approach the satellite they will orbit early next week, a feat not achieved for more than 50 years.
The Orion probe carrying them is now more than 219,000 km from Earth and, according to NASA data, will have to travel just as many kilometers to reach the Moon. “We are halfway there,” the American space agency celebrated on its social networks.
Americans Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman and Canadian Jeremy Hansen are the first to go this far into space since the end of the Apollo program in 1972.