NASA's Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time. As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity's first trip to the moon in more than half a century, comparisons between Apollo and NASA's new Artemis program are inevitable.

The astronauts aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft on the Artemis II mission captured breathtaking photos of Earth during their 10-day journey to and from the moon.

They were the pioneers of space exploration - the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. Not since the end of 1972 has a human set foot on the lunar surface. But with the success of Artemis II, the race ...

From a precise splashdown to a 694,000-mile journey, here's how Artemis II showed NASA's Moon-to-Mars plan is taking shape.