Moon-to-Earth chat shatters distance records during Artemis II–ISS link
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Artemis 2 astronauts and ISS crew held a live audio call spanning an unprecedented Earth–Moon distance, initially about 232,141 miles (373,595 km) apart and later reaching 252,756 miles (406,771 km), marking the farthest crew-to-crew communication in space; NASA released an edited video of the exchange, celebrating the historic ship-to-ship contact and the crews’ view of Earth from lunar orbit and the ISS.
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