NASA launched Artemis II, sending astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a flight around the Moon and back — the first crewed lunar mission in over fifty years, since Apollo 17 in 1972. At their farthest point, the crew traveled 252,756 miles from Earth, the greatest distance any humans had ever traveled, before splashing down safely in the Pacific ten days later. It was the first crewed flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft, and widely reported as the clearest sign yet that a crewed Moon landing, for the first time this century, was genuinely close rather than a perpetually distant plan.