Twin control rooms at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are actively supporting real-time mission operations in lunar orbit as part of the agency's Artemis II mission, helping ensure astronaut safety and mission success as the crew prepares to return to Earth Friday,

As the four Artemis astronauts approached a high point of their lunar mission -- getting slung around the far side of the Moon -- NASA staffers crowded into Houston's famed mission control room

“This image of NASA Mission Control makes me so happy," one man said online.

NASA has just revealed the wake up playlist of the Artemis II mission crew, that continues a tradition dating back from more than half a century ago.

The crew is expected to see parts of the moon no other humans have ever seen. See the first photos taken by the crew from the far side of the moon during their historic lunar flyby. NASA has been playing 'wake-up' songs for the Artemis II astronauts.

After swinging around the moon on a journey through space, a NASA crew of four astronauts is slated to return to Earth and splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday evening, capping America’s historic lunar return.