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Astronauts Set Distance Record, Revealing the Moon as a Place to Be Explored
The Orion capsule reached 252,756 miles from Earth, 4,101 miles beyond Apollo 13, as the crew photographed the moon and prepared for splashdown.
- On Monday, Artemis II shattered the distance record set by Apollo 13, reaching 252,756 miles from Earth during its lunar flyby before beginning the journey home.
- NASA's Orion spacecraft utilized a 'free-return' trajectory to conserve fuel, the same maneuver Apollo 13 employed after its 1970 oxygen tank explosion forced an abort.
- Commander Reid Wiseman and his crew requested permission to name two lunar craters 'Integrity' and 'Carroll,' honoring their capsule and Wiseman's wife who died of cancer in 2020, moving all four astronauts to tears.
- Calling them 'modern-day pioneers,' President Donald Trump phoned the crew following the flyby to praise their historic achievement and tout future travel to Mars.
- The 10-day test flight concludes with a Pacific splashdown on Friday, setting the stage for next year's Artemis III docking tests in Earth orbit.
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NolaEditorial: Wondrous Artemis II lunar mission a win for Louisiana, America and the world
Monday evening, three Americans and one Canadian did something no other human being has done before. They flew more than 250,000 miles from Earth, surpassing the record set in 1970 with the famous Apollo 13 mission.
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Miami, 6 Apr (EFE).- Artemis II concluded this Monday with the period of lunar observation, the crucial stage of the mission and in which in less than seven hours it marked several milestones, such as the record of the greatest distance to which a crew has travelled in space and the observation of the most hidden face of the Moon. The four astronauts of the team, in the sixth of a total of 10 days of mission, concluded the observation at 21:30 h…
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