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Artemis II Crew Contacts Space Station on Historic Trip Home
NASA's moon mission reached another milestone as astronauts returning from lunar flight spoke with the ISS crew.
The Artemis II astronauts made a long-distance call to the International Space Station while returning from their mission around the moon.
NASA says the moment was historic because it connected people working in low Earth orbit with astronauts traveling much farther away in deep space.
The mission is the first crewed lunar voyage in decades and is part of NASA's larger plan to build experience for future moon landings.
Officials say each step of the flight is giving engineers and astronauts valuable information for later missions.