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Professor Anu Ojha at The Royal Institution uses a string wrapped around a globe to visualize the Moon’s distance—about 10 Earth circumferences away—making the vast scale more intuitive than numbers alone. The demonstration puts the Earth‑Moon gap in perspective against the ISS’s 400 km orbit and notes that Venus would be even farther, highlighting the challenges of interplanetary travel and tying the lesson to Artemis II’s Moon flyby.
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.
A newly discovered asteroid, 2025 QD8, roughly the size of a commercial jet, will pass within about 57% of the Earth-moon distance on September 3, and can be watched live online via the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream.