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The human race is now flying farther from its home planet than at any other time in history. At approximately 1:57 p.m. on April 6, 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 248,655 statute miles—a record set by Apollo 13 almost exactly 56 years ago. The pioneering moment came at the beginning of Day 6 of Artemis II’s 10-day test flight, and mere minutes before its four astronauts were scheduled to begin the first flyby around the moon since 1972. As The Epoch Times’ T.J.Muscaro details, for the next several hours, the crew will continue to move closer to the Moon and farther from Earth. Mission leaders expected Integrity’s uphill trajectory to peak at 252,760 statute miles away and reach its closest point to the moon – a little more than 4,000 statute miles above its surface – just after 7 p.m. ET. In the farthest distance of deep space reached by a crewed spaceflight, astronauts will gaze upon areas of the moon that have never been seen before by unaided human eyes. Watch the events here: As T.J.Muscaro detailed earlier via The Epoch […]
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