Caroline Hepker

It will reach speeds around 17,500 miles per hour as it hurtles into space.

Its crew, though, is now set to travel further into space than anyone in history and fly by the moon's surface in four days' time.

Those are some of our top news stories for you this morning.

Incredible, really, to hear.

See the world from that distance, isn't it?

Gives you some perspective about what's happening on Earth.

Well, the oil crisis really continuing.

Brent crude futures currently up by 6.6%, so trading at $107.86.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

WTI crude futures at $106.20.

A big drop in stock futures, so a real reversal in sentiment there.

Eurostox 50 futures down 2%.

S&P 500 E-mini futures also down 1.3%.

MSCI Asia-Pacific Index dropping 2.3%.

Bond yields surging in the U.S.

up six basis points to 438 for the 10-year yield.

And the dollar is also strengthening four-tenths of 1%.

So it really is a zigzag versus yesterday's optimism about maybe some kind of off-ramp for the U.S.

in the war.

That doesn't seem to be the indication now from President Trump.