Artemis II crew current update It has been a historic day for the Artemis II crew, who are now bound for Earth after completing a fly-by of the Moon. Here's what has happened over the past few hours: At around 19:00 BST, the Artemis II crew broke the record for the furthest humans have ever travelled from Earth - the previous record of 248,655 miles (400,171km) from Earth was set by the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 *The Orion spacecraft then passed behind the Moon, temporarily losing contact with Nasa back on Earth - the outage was expected and lasted around 40 minutes "#Houston, #Integrity, #comms check," were the first words from mission specialist Christina Koch when contact was re-established, who also said it was "so great to hear the Earth again" *While flying behind the Moon, the Orion spacecraft also reached its maximum distance from Earth - a new record for the furthest distance travelled by humans from our home planet *The new record has been set at 252,756 miles (406,771km) Next for the crew was a quick break before observing total solar eclipse, which lasted about an hour - the astronauts spent that time taking photographs and telling the science team in Houston what they could see, noting that there were "not enough adjectives" to describe the "surreal" experience *As the four astronauts began the process of sending all their data from the past seven hours of observation to Earth, they also received a congratulatory call from US President Donald Trump. :source BBC WORLD