Houston/New York –
The Artemis astronauts were gearing up Saturday for their long-anticipated lunar flyby, including reviewing the surface features they must analyze and photograph during their time circling the moon.
“Morale is high on board,” commander Reid Wiseman told Houston’s Mission Control center as the space crew’s work day began.
Upon waking around 4:35 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on Saturday, the astronauts were approximately 271,979 kilometers from Earth, and approaching the moon at a distance of 178,154 kilometers, according to NASA.