A four-astronaut NASA crew is scheduled to fly by the Moon, taking images of its far side. This historic pass, occurring near 7 pm New York time, marks the closest human approach to the Moon in over five decades.

A Nasa crew of four astronauts will fly by the moon on Monday at the closest distance they will get to the lunar surface during their mission and the nearest any human has got to the moon in more than 50 years. The historic moment is set to occur just after 7pm New York time on Monday, part of a several hours-long fly-by where the astronauts will snap images of the moon’s far side – a vantage that is never seen from Earth. The close approach is the pinnacle moment of Nasa’s Artemis II mission,.....