WASHINGTON, April 6 -- For the first time in more than half a century, astronauts will fly around the Moon on Monday, marking the high point of the Artemis 2's lunar mission.

Here's what you need to know about the event:

Live broadcast 

The flyby will last around seven hours, starting Monday around 2:45pm eastern US time (1845 GMT) and ending around 9:20pm (0120 GMT).

Nasa will broadcast the flyby live on its website, as well as on YouTube, Amazon and Netflix, with commentary from both the astronauts aboard the mission and experts at the Mission Control centre in Houston, Texas.

Given the lengthy distance - further than any humans have ever traveled from Earth - Nasa has cautioned that the livestream video quality may be poor at...