Houston, we have a new record holder.
landing to safely bringing the astronauts back to Earth after a mid-flight explosion tore through the vehicle's service module.
Apollo 13 reached the distance it did because there was an emergency need to use the moon's gravity to slingshot the spacecraft back toThe moon and Apollo 13 command module seen from the mission's lunar module on April 15, 1970, a day after the crew and spacecraft set a record for the farthest distance traveled from Earthflight profile was not designed specifically to break the Apollo 13 record. It only did so because NASA sent the Orion into a lunar distant retrograde orbit.
"Artemis I was designed to stress the systems of Orion and we settled on the distant retrograde orbit as agood way to do that," said Jim Geffre, NASA's Orion spacecraft integration manager."It just so happened that with that really large orbit, high altitude above the moon, we were able to pass the Apollo 13 record. But what was more important though, was pushing the boundaries of exploration and sending spacecraft farther than we had ever done before.
Orion did not stop at the Apollo 13 distance. NASA expects the Artemis I capsule to reach a maximum distance from Earth of 268,553 miles at 4:06 p.m. EST on Monday . From there it will continue traveling halfway around the moon until firing its
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