The Artemis II astronauts will set a new distance record from Earth today

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman looks backmost astatine Earth from 1 of the Orion spacecraft’s main compartment windows. | Image: NASA

On April 15th, 1970, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert acceptable a region grounds erstwhile Apollo 13 traveled 248,655 miles from Earth. Nearly 56 years later, the unit of Artemis II is expected to interruption that grounds by respective 1000 miles erstwhile the Orion spacecraft reaches a maximum region of 252,757 miles distant from Earth aboriginal contiguous arsenic it completes its formation astir the acold broadside of the Moon.

NASA's coverage of the lunar flyby begins astatine 1PM ET today if you privation to travel on astatine home, portion the astronauts are expected to acceptable the caller region grounds from Earth astatine 1:56PM ET. The travel astir the acold broadside of the Moon volition instrumentality astir six hours …

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