Charlie Duke flew to the moon in 1972 during Apollo 16, alongside John Young and Ken Mattingly. While in space, Duke left something special behind.

An hour later, the four astronauts on Artemis II — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch of NASA and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency — did something that is likely to become more common in the coming years: chatting with someone somewhere else in outer space.

HOUSTON (AP) — Still aglow from their triumphant lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts put in a call to their friends aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday as they headed home from the moon.

When the crews of Artemis II and the International Space Station spoke briefly through ground control on Tuesday, a curious conversation took place.

The Artemis II crew includes the first woman, Black man, and Canadian to fly on a moon mission, a key step for NASA.

The Artemis II crew of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen set the record for the farthest distance from Earth traveled by a human mission Monday.

One of the crew say they have seen "sights that no human has ever seen" after travelling beyond the far side of the Moon.