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Using the Moon’s gravity for a “free” return journey, it took the crew four days to get back to Earth after it created history on their pass behind the Moon.

The number of human beings who have traveled to the moon and returned safely to Earth will increase to 28 on Friday night when NASA’s Orion capsule containing four Artemis II.

A Nasa official has said he’ll ’be anxious’ as Artemis II returns to earth after midnight tonight.

The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission have started the journey home after making history on their pass behind the Moon.

Four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II test flight around the Moon made history at 12:56 p.m. CDT on Monday, traveling 248,655 miles from Earth, surpassing the record for human spaceflight’s farthest distance previously set by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970.

NASA’s first manned Moon mission in more than five decades fired its rockets early on Friday to break out of Earth’s orbit.

Nasa’s moon rocket Artemis II launched on Wednesday evening, carrying astronauts to the moon for the first time in almost 54 years.