Astronauts are expected to hit a major milestone in the Artemis II mission with a historic flyby of the moon on Monday afternoon.

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NASA’s Artemis II astronauts are heading back to Earth—with thousands of striking new images from a history-making trip around the moon. The crew aboard the Orion spacecraft came within roughly 4,067 miles of the lunar surface during a seven-hour flyby,

NASA is expected to hold a news conference at 4:30 p.m. EDT. Watch live views of space from Artemis II in our video player above. A day after the historic lunar flyaround, NASA on Tuesday released striking new photos taken by the U.S.-Canadian crew.

NASA lost contact with the Artemis 2 crew on Monday evening as the astronauts passed behind the moon.

Yesterday, the Artemis II crew successfully flew around the far side of the moon, a historic milestone in their journey. Thankfully, the team aboard Orion was hard at work taking loads of photographs throughout it all, and now NASA has shared some of those spectacular images.