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Washington (dpa). About ten days after its launch, the “Orion” capsule of NASA’s “Artemis 1” lunar mission set a distance record. The US space agency said on Twitter that it was more than 249,000 miles (over 400,000 kilometers) from Earth.
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This is the longest distance ever achieved by a man-made spacecraft. According to a previously distributed press release, the previous record was set more than 50 years ago by the “Apollo 13” mission at 248,655 miles.
There are no people on board the “Orion” capsule, astronauts are supposed to fly only with the “Artemis 2” mission scheduled for 2024. Shortly before the disk, “Orion” entered the orbit of the moon. After months of delays, the “Artemis 1” mission took off for a first test launch on November 16 (local time). The capsule is expected to return to earth on December 11 after a flight of approximately two million kilometres.
With the “Artemis” program, named after the Greek goddess of the moon, US astronauts are expected to land on the moon again in the coming years, including for the first time a woman and a non-white person.
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