Over seven hours, the astronauts took thousands of photos that will help inform scientists’ understanding of the moon. The first ones have now been released.

The four astronauts — NASA commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen — spent Monday’s seven-hour lunar flyby taking photos and making observations from the Orion spacecraft, which they named Integrity.

Nasa has released the first photographs taken by the Artemis II astronauts during their fly-by of the Moon. The first image, above, shows an 'Earthset' as the astronauts glimpsed our home planet peeking out beyond a cratered lunar landscape.

NASA’s Artemis II astronauts are heading back to Earth—with thousands of striking new images from a history-making trip around the moon. The crew aboard the Orion spacecraft came within roughly 4,067 miles of the lunar surface during a seven-hour flyby,

NASA is expected to hold a news conference at 4:30 p.m. EDT. Watch live views of space from Artemis II in our video player above. A day after the historic lunar flyaround, NASA on Tuesday released striking new photos taken by the U.S.-Canadian crew.

NASA lost contact with the Artemis 2 crew on Monday evening as the astronauts passed behind the moon.

A NASA astronaut and South Windsor High School alum talked to students live from the International Space Station.