A giant rocket’s tower of flame lifted three Americans and one Canadian at 6:35 p.m. Eastern on the first crewed journey that will go around the moon since 1972.

The crew on board Nasa's Artemis II spacecraft have described seeing the far side of the Moon for the first time.

The mission launched on April 1 at about 6:35 p.m. ET with NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Hammock Koch, and Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day flight to take the crew ...