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Artemis II breaks record for farthest human spaceflight

The Orion spacecraft is in its final phase, with NASA saying astronauts have broken Apollo 13's record for traveling the farthest distance from Earth. Grouped from 8 articles across 5 sources.

8 reports5 sourcesApr 7, 2026, 2:47 AM
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DWApr 7, 2026, 2:47 AM

Artemis II breaks record for farthest human spaceflight

The Orion spacecraft is in its final phase, with NASA saying astronauts have broken Apollo 13's record for traveling the farthest distance from Earth.

Al JazeeraApr 7, 2026, 2:29 AM

Artemis II astronauts break record for farthest human travel from Earth

Four astronauts from NASA’s Artemis II mission have broken the record for the farthest human travel from Earth.

Al JazeeraApr 6, 2026, 6:11 PM

Artemis II breaks Apollo 13 record for farthest human travel from Earth

Mission's four astronauts break record set in 1970 by Apollo 13, which flew 400,171km from the planet.

The Globe and MailApr 7, 2026, 2:13 AM

Artemis II breaks distance record as humans travel farther from Earth than ever before

The previous title was held by the Apollo 13 crew, who logged a maximum distance of 248,655 miles from Earth.

ABC AustraliaApr 6, 2026, 3:37 AM

Artemis II chases record for the farthest humans have ventured from Earth

The Apollo 13 crew has held the distance record for a crewed aircraft's maximum range from Earth since the 1970s. The Artemis II crew is about to change that.

The Straits TimesApr 6, 2026, 10:10 AM

Artemis II moon mission breaks record for distance from Earth

HOUSTON, April 6 - The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission flew on Monday to the deepest point in space reached by any human, sailing along a path of lunar gravitational pull en route to a rare crewed flyby over the shadowed far side of the moon.

ABC AustraliaApr 6, 2026, 5:37 PM

Live: Artemis astronauts travel farther from Earth than any humans before

The Artemis II astronauts are on track to break humanity's all-time distance record from Earth before embarking on a six-hour flyby of the Moon. Follow live.

The Straits TimesApr 6, 2026, 7:07 PM

New frontier: Artemis astronauts break space distance record

The Artemis II team broke the previous record set by 1970‘s Apollo 13 mission.

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