NASA's Artemis II fires engines and heads for the moon

Insights

• Orion's trans-lunar injection burn lasted less than six minutes and put the spacecraft on a trajectory to the moon.
• The crew will enter the moon's sphere of gravitational influence early next week and aims to surpass Apollo 13's distance record from 1970.
• The mission launched from Florida about 26 hours before the burn.
• Astronauts are documenting the flight with iPhones, GoPros and professional Nikon cameras.
• A red-warning light on Orion's toilet prompted contingency procedures and mission engineers guided the crew to a successful fix.
• On about day six the crew is expected to reach roughly 252,000 miles from Earth, the farthest distance humans have flown.