"We will continue our journey even further into space before Mother Earth succeeds in pulling us back, said astronaut Jeremy Hansen, as the team broke a distance record from Earth for space travel on Monday."
"In marking the record, the Artemis II astronauts proposed that one crater be named Integrity, after their Orion spacecraft, and that another be named Carroll, for mission commander Reid Wiseman's late wife."
"Artemis II's homecoming is already baked into the voyage, courtesy of the moon's gravity bending the Orion spacecraft's trajectory to wing the capsule home without much, if any, help from Orion's rocket engines."
Artemis II has begun the return leg of its mission, completing a free return trajectory from Earth to the moon. Astronaut Jeremy Hansen emphasized the importance of challenging future generations to surpass this distance record. The crew proposed naming two craters after their spacecraft and mission commander's late wife. Despite minor issues, the Orion spacecraft performed well. Launched on April 1, Artemis II is demonstrating a successful crewed trip around the moon, marking the first such mission in over fifty years.
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