NASA’s Artemis II Crew Eclipses Record for Farthest Human Spaceflight
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Four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II test flight around the Moon made history at 12:56 p.m. CDT on Monday, traveling 248,655 miles from Earth, surpassing the record for human spaceflight’s farthest distance previously set by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970.
At its farthest point, crew inside the Orion spacecraft will have traveled about 252,760 […]
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