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NASA’s Orion capsule has reached 432,000 kilometres from earth, the longest distance ever travelled by a spacecraft made for human passengers.
Capsule makes longest distance from earth
The Orion capsule of NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission has reached its farthest distance from earth two weeks after launch, the US space agency says.
“We made it to the maximum distance from the Earth!” NASA tweeted on Monday.
The capsule went about 432,000 kilometres from earth, the longest distance ever travelled by a spacecraft made for human passengers.
Just days earlier, Orion broke a record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 when it reached some 400,000km from earth shortly after entering the orbit of the moon.
