During their April 6 flyby, the Artemis 2 moon astronauts will snap an Earthrise photo that could inspire a new generation.

Like Apollo 8 in 1968, NASA's Artemis 2 mission from Florida will send a crew of astronauts around the moon and back without landing.

The Artemis II crew is almost at the moon, and the astronauts spent this weekend carrying out preparations for their lunar flyby on Monday. That included manual piloting demonstrations, reviewing their science objectives for the six-hour observation period and evaluating their space suits,

On Monday, the astronauts aboard the Artemis II spacecraft will loop around the Moon's far side, part of a mission pushing human beings farther from Earth than anyone has ever been. Correspondent Mark Strassmann talked with commander Reid Wiseman,

It's a beautiful sight." The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission are now closer to the moon than they are to Earth, the first time humans have even approached the moon for more than half a century.