Artemis II crew describe far side of Moon

The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission described seeing the far side of the Moon for the first time.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen have entered the third day of their mission aboard the Orion spacecraft, which will carry them around the far side of the Moon to Earth.

“Something about you feels like this isn’t the Moon I’m used to seeing,” Koch said.

As of 23:00 BST on Saturday, NASA’s online dashboard showed the Artemis II spacecraft was more than 180,000 miles (28.9681 km) from Earth.