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WASHINGTON — The crew of the Artemis II mission made history yet again on Monday, when the four astronauts aboard the Orion looped around the moon at the farthest distance from Earth ever traveled by humans and witnessed a total solar eclipse.

NASA explains how a safely view a 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse. WARNING: People should always use protective solar eclipse eyewear when viewing a solar eclipse. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flig

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The four astronauts — NASA commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen — spent Monday’s seven-hour lunar flyby taking photos and making observations from the Orion spacecraft, which they named Integrity.