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Artemis II Breaks Record for Farthest Flight From Earth

The Orion spacecraft Integrity will continue to move closer to the moon and farther from the Earth for the next several hours.
Artemis II astronauts end day five of their space journey bracing for historic lunar flyby and observation.
T.J. Muscaro
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​​HOUSTON—The human race has now flown farther from its home planet than at any other time in history.

NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, flew their Orion spacecraft Integrity beyond the record 248,655 statute miles—which was set by Apollo 13 almost exactly 56 years ago—at approximately 1:57 p.m. ET on April 6.

T.J. Muscaro
T.J. Muscaro
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T.J. Muscaro is an award-winning reporter and NASA Correspondent for The Epoch Times, covering the Artemis program, Space Force, and other public and private ambitions within the growing space industry. Based in Tampa, Florida, he also covers stories of extreme weather and disaster relief, as well as various matters of national and international politics.