Latest News About Apollo 13’s record distance sighs farewell

Apollo 13’s ill-fated 1970 flight, forced into a desperate trajectory after an on-board blast , turned a survival manoeuvre into an unintended milestone, taking the three astronauts farther from home than anyone had been before, reaching roughly 248,655 miles. In recent months Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed flight beyond near-Earth space, quietly eclipsed that landmark , carrying four astronauts past the same 248,655-mile point as part of its planned lunar-flyby profile, thereby establishing a new human-flight record and closing a chapter that began with an emergency .

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