NASA's Artemis II crew has traveled a record distance from Earth in human history
Four astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission in the Orion capsule on Monday made the deepest space journey in history, flying past the shadowed far side of the Moon.
Four astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission in the Orion capsule on Monday made the deepest space journey in history, flying past the shadowed far side of the Moon.
According to Reuters, astronauts conducted a six-hour study of the normally hidden hemisphere of the Moon as meteors fell on its surface.
The crew, consisting of American astronauts Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, as well as Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, made spaceflight history by traveling further from Earth than any human before — a distance of 252,756 miles (or 406,771 km).
The previous record, approximately 248,000 miles, was set in 1970 by the Apollo 13 mission.
Additionally, on the way to the far side of the Moon, Artemis astronauts assigned preliminary new names to lunar objects that previously had no official designations.
Mission participant Jeremy Hansen later stated that the crew saw a number of features on the Moon that «no human had ever seen before, even in Apollo.»
As dev.ua wrote, four astronauts previously successfully embarked on a historic flight to the Moon.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk proposed building a factory for xAI AI satellites and a catapult for their launch on the Moon .
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