Latest News About The distant legacy of Apollo 13 lives on in Artemis II

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 the planet than anyone had been before, reaching roughly 248,655 miles. In recent months Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed flight beyond low-Earth orbit , quietly eclipsed that distance , carrying four astronauts past the same 248,655-mile point as part of its planned lunar-flyby profile, thereby establishing a fresh benchmark and closing a chapter that began with an emergency .

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