‘We will always choose Earth’: Nasa astronauts head home after record-breaking flight

Four Artemis astronauts have flown further from Earth than any human has ventured before. At around 7pm BST, the astronauts travelled more than 248,655 miles from Earth, breaking the previous record set by the Apollo 13 crew in 1970. They then hit one of the most tense points in their mission: a 40-minute communications blackout as the Orion capsule flew directly behind the Moon, reaching a distance of 252,756 miles from Earth and setting a new record. “Houston, Integrity, comms check,” mission.