India, April 7 -- Four astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis II mission have made history, travelling farther from Earth than any humans before them while getting a breathtaking look at parts of the moon that even the Apollo astronauts never clearly saw.

On Monday, the Artemis II crew surpassed the previous distance record of 248,655 miles (400,171 kilometers) set by Apollo 13 back in April 1970 and kept going. By the time the flyby was complete, Mission Control expected the crew to have beaten that old record by more than 4,100 miles (6,600 kilometers), with NASA estimating the maximum distance from Earth would exceed 406,000 kilometers.

"It is blowing my mind what you can see with the naked eye from the moon right now. It is just unbelieva...