Florida (UrduPoint / WAM / 03 April 2026 AD) Astronauts on NASA’s Artemis 2 mission ignited the engines of their spacecraft late Thursday, leaving Earth’s orbit on their journey toward the Moon.
The maneuver, known as lunar injection, was conducted about 25 hours after launch, putting three American astronauts and a Canadian astronaut on a path that would allow them to fly around the moon early next week.
Specifically, the Orion capsule left Earth’s orbit table It is now heading towards the moon, as NASA indicated that initial reports confirm that the operation went smoothly.
On the sixth day of the mission, the astronauts are expected to reach a distance of approximately 252,000 miles. from Earth, marking the furthest distance humans have ever reached, as the basketball-sized planet will appear behind the far side of the moon.