Artemis 2 astronauts break record for travelling furthest from Earth

The crew of the Artemis 2 lunar mission has traveled 406,711 kilometers from Earth, surpassing the previous record of 400,171 kilometers set by Apollo 13 in 1970. U.S. astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. They became the first to see parts of the far side of the Moon and witnessed a solar eclipse. Hansen described the experience as 'extraordinary.'