While NASA’s Artemis Il mission plans to send four astronauts over 230,000 miles from Earth on a trip around the farside of the moon, the Artemis team will not make a lunar landing.

After its trip around the far side of the Moon-the spacecraft will be pulled back naturally by Earth’s gravity for re-entry and planned splash down in the Pacific Ocean.

You may also like...

Phytoplankton blooms as seen from above

Blue whales are about the length of a tennis court but can grow longer than a basketball court

Octopuses have been found to have sophisticated problem-solving abilities, such as being able to open jars and solve mazes

image of albatrosses

In one Albatross colony, more than 30% of pairs were female–female

Tomatoes were cultivated by the Aztecs in the Americas—they were brought to Italy by the Spanish in the 1500s—but people thought they were either poisonous or an aphrodisiac

Tomatoes were cultivated by the Aztecs in the Americas—they were brought to Italy by the Spanish in the 1500s

Fried Egg Jellyfish