The first is Integrity, to honour the name of the Orion spacecraft on this mission, located between Orientale crater and Ohm crater on the lunar farside.
The second is Carroll, in memory of Reid Wiseman’s wife, Carroll Wiseman, whom he lost to cancer in May of 2020. This crater is located to the northwest of Glushko crater, and is a bright spot on the lunar surface.
The approximate locations of the two craters the crew recommended names for, superimposed on an image of the Moon the crew captured earlier on April 6, 2026. (NASA/Scott Sutherland)
1:56 p.m. EDT
The Artemis 2 crew — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen — have just become the four humans to travel the farthest from Earth, ever.
CAPCOM Jenni Gibbons, from the Canadian Space Agency, is shown here in Mission Control, as she reads out a prepared statement about the Artemis 2 crew breaking the Apollo 13 mission’s record farthest distance from Earth. (NASA TV)
Passing a distance of 400,171 kilometres from Earth, they broke the record set on April 14, 1970, by the Apollo 13 crew.
The estimated distance of Artemis 2 at their farthest distance from Earth is 404,800 km, which is over 4,000 km farther than Apollo 13 in 1970. (Scott Sutherland/NASA SVS)
1:43 p.m. EDT
With NASA’s coverage of this event now live, here is the schedule of events for this historic stage of the Artemis 2 mission:
At 1:56 p.m. EDT, the crew will officially break the record for farthest distance from Earth.
At 2:45 p.m. EDT, official lunar observations will begin, and continue for 7 hours.
At 6:44 p.m. EDT, NASA will lose contact with the Orion spacecraft, as they pass behind the Moon. The mass of the Moon will prevent any radio communications with the crew.
At 7:02 p.m. EDT, Artemis 2 will reach their closest distance to the Moon, at 6,550 km from the lunar surface.
At 7:07 p.m. EDT, Artemis 2 will reach their farthest distance, total, from Earth.
At 7:25 p.m. EDT, Mission Control should re-aquire contact with Orion.
At 8:35 p.m. EDT, Orion will view a solar eclipse from space, as the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun from their perspective. This will last until 9:32 p.m. EDT.
At 9:20 p.m. EDT, flyby operations will wrap up.
In a camera view from the tip of one of Orion’s solar panels, the side and forward section of the spacecraft can be seen to the left, while the Moon is visible on the right. This isn’t a full-disk view of the Moon, as the lower right section is in shadow. The Moon is ‘upside down’ compared to our normal, northern hemisphere view of the Moon, and they can see a portion of the eastern limb of the Moon that we rarely glimpse from Earth. (NASA TV)
1:15 p.m. EDT
The Artemis 2 crew is roughly 45 minutes away from breaking Apollo 13’s distance record from Earth.