Four astronauts on the Artemis II mission are heading towards the far side of the Moon after completing a critical engine burn to leave Earth's orbit

Four astronauts on the Artemis II mission are on their way to journey around the moon after successfully conducting the translunar injection burn, or TLI.

The mission’s Orion spacecraft fired its main engine for five minutes and 50 seconds beginning at 7.49 pm Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, completing a translunar injection (TLI) burn—a propulsive m...