The White House and NASA released imagery captured by the cameras of the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission.

One of the crew say they have seen "sights that no human has ever seen" after travelling beyond the far side of the Moon.

The Artemis II crew lifted off at 6:35 p.m. ET on Wednesday, April 1.

The Artemis II crew broke a record by flying 252,756 miles from Earth, the furthest humans have ever traveled. Astronauts completed a seven-hour lunar flyby, seeing a side of the moon never before seen by humans.

The finds come from the Rubin Observatory. which is expected will eventually reveal nearly 90,000 new near-Earth objects.

Wiseman, Hansen, pilot Victor Glover and Christina Koch were on track to pass as close as 4,070 miles (6,550 kilometers) to the moon, as their Orion capsule whips past it, hangs a U-turn and then heads back toward Earth. It will take them four days to get back, with a splashdown in the Pacific concluding their test flight on Friday.

Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. on April 1. It is set to splashdown off the coast of San Diego, California on Friday, April 10 at approx. 8:07 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Though those times could shift.

The Artemis II crew go further than any humans before in Nasa's first crewed mission to the Moon in over 50 years.

The first photo, taken by Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, shows the entire planet, and both the Northern and Southern lights are visible over the poles. Zodiacal light, created by sunlight reflecting off dust in the solar system, is visible in the bottom right of the image.

Vantor employees were gathered for a sales kickoff in January, when an executive announced that a WorldView Legion satellite passing overhead would snap a photo of the California venue. Later, a buzzer sounded to alert the audience that the 30-centimeter-resolution image was available on the Vantor Hub portal.