Sky News issues major breaking news alert as show takes emotional turn

Sky News issued a breaking news alert as the Artemis II mission returned to Earth after a lunar flyby which saw the four astronauts go further than any other humans. The crew lost contact with Earth for 40 minutes while travelling behind the Moon, as expected by the ground team. After making contact, Orion, the Artemis II mission's spacecraft, broke the record for human travel, beating the 248,655 miles (400,000km) set by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970.

As Sky News shared the news alert of the successful mission, they spoke to Layla Nicholson, who is raising money to send her late dad's ashes to space. It comes after her sister submitted to send their dad John's name into space, as he had been a huge space enthusiast her whole life.

Speaking to presenter Jonathan Samuels, Layla said: ""Sadly, my dad passed away in September. And just a couple days after, my sister was online, just looking at NASA because my dad was always obsessed with space and she happened to come across the admissions to submit your name for the Artemis mission. So she thought it would be a great way to honour dad. Now dad's name is up in space.

Jonathan replied: "What a brilliant idea and what a lovely tribute as well. And he was a real space enthusiast, wasn't he? Tell me about that and tell me what he'd make of his name now floating around without any gravity. He would be over the moon, if you pardon me."

Layla said: "So, dad was always obsessed with space since he was a child, so he always wanted to be an astronaut. And he even, as he went into adulthood, he would organise trips to go to Cape Canaveral for fellow space nuts to watch all the launches from about 1989 to the mid to late 90s. So, yeah, to know that he's part of this massive piece of history, yeah, he would be absolutely thrilled."

Layla has started a GoFundMe page to send her dad's ashes into space, which will cost £4,000. At the time of writing, the page had raised over £1,000. You can donate here.