NASA’s space craft breaks the distance record

Nasa’s Orion capsule has broken a distance record on its mission around the Moon. On Monday, it moved some 430,000km (270,000 miles) beyond the Earth - the furthest any spacecraft designed to carry humans has travelled. The ship is uncrewed on this occasion, but if the current flight is a success, astronauts will be on the next outing in two years' time. The Orion missions are part of the agency's Artemis programme, which seeks to return people to the lunar surface after a gap of 50 years.