Artemis II astronauts end day five of their space journey bracing for historic lunar flyby and observation.
HOUSTON—The human race has now flown farther from its home planet than at any other time in history.
NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, flew their Orion spacecraft Integrity beyond the record 248,655 statute miles—which was set by Apollo 13 almost exactly 56 years ago—at approximately 1:57 p.m. ET on April 6.
