00:01695,000 miles. 10 days. One epic loop around the moon. Artemis II launched, circled the Earth twice,
00:09and then blasted free, riding gravity like a slingshot toward deep space. At closest pass,
00:15Orion skims over 4,000 miles above the lunar surface, farther than any humans have ever
00:21traveled, breaking Apollo 13's record. On the far side of the moon, astronauts will see something
00:27few ever have, the entire moon in one view, from pole to pole. Then, gravity takes over again,
00:34pulling them home to Earth. By splashdown, their path traces a perfect cosmic figure eight,
00:41a journey written across space itself.
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