Jonathan McDowell and Spaceflight Now mark Orion Integrity entering the Moon's sphere of influence, a key navigation milestone that also reframes the crew as the 25th to 28th humans to leave terrestrial space.
The Integrity spacecraft just entered the lunar gravitational sphere of influence, at 0438 UTC Apr 6.
Wiseman, Glover, Koch and Hansen are now the 25th to 28th humans to have left terrestrial space.
The Orion capsule carrying the Artemis 2 astronauts has entered the lunar sphere of influence, the point at which the pull of the Moon’s gravity is stronger than the pull of the Earth's.
NASA ARTEMIS II MISSION UPDATE The crew and Orion are approximately 94,117km to the Moon, they're also just over 350,000km away from Earth.
The #NASA #ArtemisII crew of Reid, Victor, Christina & Jeremy are past the midway point to the moon at over 161,700 miles away from Earth by the morning of April 4th 2026 with a fly by of the dark side of the moon on April 6th with a farthest distance record by any human.
HUMANITY RETURNS TO THE LUNAR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE 53 years, 3 months, 19 days, 12 hours, and 26 minutes since Apollo 17 departed, Artemis II has arrived in the SOI of our celestial companion.
NASA has created a nice multi-perspective tool, AROW (Artemis Real-time Orbit Website), to track Artemis 2 on its journey to the Moon and back:
HUMANITY RETURNS TO THE LUNAR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
WE'RE SO BACK!
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