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NASA's Orion capsule flies past 52-yr-old record distance of Apollo 13
short by Aishwarya Awasthi / on Sunday, 27 November, 2022
NASA's Artemis l Orion capsule set a record on Saturday by flying further than any spacecraft designed to carry humans ever has. It flew past the record-setting distance achieved by the Apollo 13 command module "Odyssey" at 248,655 miles from Earth in 1970. At its maximum distance from the Moon, Orion will be over 270,000 miles from Earth on Monday.
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