NASA‘s Artemis programme is already breaking records, less than two weeks after its very first spaceflight launched.
The agency has confirmed its Artemis 1 Orion capsule smashed the record for https://www.horas.id/ the furthest distance travelled from Earth by any craft designed to carry humans.
At 08:40 EST (13:40 GMT) on Saturday (November 26), Orion reached 248,655 miles from Earth, beating the record set by Apollo 13 in April 1970.
Then, at 16:06 EST (21:06 GMT) on Saturday, it reached the farthest point in its orbit – a maximum distance of 268,553 miles.
Artemis 1 is an uncrewed test flight for NASA’s Artemis programme, comprising the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
Pictured is Orion looking back at the Earth from a camera mounted on one of its solar arrays
