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ROB SCHMITZ, HOST: After NASA's glory days of putting astronauts on the moon in the 1960s and '70s, its crew stayed closer to home. That all changed earlier this month with the Artemis II mission, and few.
The astronauts on the Artemis II mission have reached the moon's gravitational sphere, meaning the spacecraft is more strongly affected by the moon's gravity than Earth's, NASA said on Monday. While entering the moon's gravitational influence, the Orion capsule was about 63,000 kilometers (39,000 miles) from the moon and about 232,000 miles from Earth, a NASA official said.
