Artemis, Earth and Apollo
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The Artemis II astronauts surpassed the Apollo 13 record of 248,655 miles from Earth on Monday at 12:56 p.m. Central time.
What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.
Artemis II astronauts are making history as they travel farther from Earth than any humans in history and conduct a moon flyby.
NASA’s Artemis astronauts set a new record for the farthest human distance from Earth, surpassing Apollo at 1:57 p.m., while honoring integrity and family with symbolic crater names.
But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was the long way around the Moon.