Astronaut wakeup calls go back to the Apollo years. For instance, the Apollo 10 astronauts had the song "It's Nice to Go Trav'ling" by Frank Sinatra as one of their wakeup calls, and Apollo 15 had the theme song from "2001: A Space Odyssey."

You might not be able to see the moon the way the Artemis II team is, but there's an educational Fortnite simulation that will get you onto the celestial body's surface.

During the Artemis II mission, astronaut Jeremy Hansen told Nasa's Kelsey Young that the crew would like to name some craters on the Moon that they can currently see "both with our naked eye and with our long lens".

"Integrity and Carroll Crater, loud and clear."

Track the progress of the Artemis II mission with the latest updates and news from the historic mission to the moon's orbit.

The daring team officially broke the record for the farthest any human has ever traveled from Earth this evening — previously set in 1970 by NASA’s Apollo 13 mission — when they reached a distance of 252,752 miles from home just after 2 pm Eastern time on Monday.

But all in all, so far it’s looking like the rocket and spaceship needed for a lunar landing are getting there for NASA. The biggest remaining piece of the architecture, therefore, is a lunar lander.

In today’s newsletter: Trump threatens major strikes on Iran’s infrastructure ahead of his latest Strait of Hormuz deadline. Artemis II astronauts cross a key threshold in their journey around the moon. And Elon Musk’s private security guards were deputized as federal agents without the required training, newly released emails show.