A waste system glitch briefly interrupted the otherwise smooth deep-space journey. Full functionality returned after engineers successfully cleared the stubborn blockage.
According to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, the main difference between the Apollo programme and the "Artemis" is that the former culminated with brief stays on the Moon while the latter will entail a permanent human presence there.
NASA's plans for the first woman on the lunar surface ever comes nearly five decades after the men set their foot there.
