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The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission flew deeper into space than any humans before, passing behind the Moon in a rare flyby of its shadowed far side, where a heavily cratered surface bears the marks of cosmic bombardment. Emilie Martin, Section Editor at Ciel et Espace, joined France 24 from Houston to describe the emotion at mission control as the crew set a new distance record.

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