After more than half a century of silence, humanity has once again ventured to the far side of the Moon , and this time, it brought cameras.

NASA’s Artemis 2 mission made history in ways that go far beyond a simple lunar flyby. The 10-day mission carried four astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen, on a voyage to the far side of the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft, dubbed “Integrity.” The crew looped around the Moon’s far side on April 6, something no human crew had done since Apollo 17 in 1972.

The mission shattered records and rewrote history on multiple fronts. As the crew surpassed the farthest distance ever traveled from Earth, Commander Reid Wiseman radioed Mission Control: “We do so in honoring the extraordinary efforts and feats of our predecessors in human space exploration.”