Artemis II Flight Day 7: Crew Makes Long‑Distance Call, Begins Return

Photo: Artemis II in Eclipse – art002e009301 (April 6, 2026) – Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. […] Photo credit: NASA Johnson via Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (no modifications). Article by Joseph Zakrzewski, Abby Graf, Linda E. Grimm and NASA Communications. NASA: Missions – April 7, 2026.

After their historic lunar flyby on April 6, the Artemis II crew is awake and preparing for the journey back to Earth. The crew started the day 36,286 miles from the Moon and 236,022 miles from Earth, waking to the sounds of “Tokyo Drifting,” by Glass Animals and Denzel Curry. At 1:23 p.m. EDT, the Orion spacecraft and its crew — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen — will exit the lunar sphere of influence, marking their shift out of the Moon’s gravity. […]

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