President Trump participated in a phone call with the Artemis II astronauts Monday night after they completed their historic lunar fly-by. The four astronauts broke a previous record set by the Apollo 13 mission for furthest distance traveled from the Earth. They are set to return to the Earth and splash down in the Pacific Ocean Friday evening. #artemisii #trump #apollo13 #moon
Trump congratulated the quartet for their efforts in shattering the distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970.
Mission specialist Jeremy Hansen honored the legacy of the Apollo missions in a message after the crew broke Apollo 13's record. The crew has traveled over 252,000 miles now.
Artemis II made history Monday as the 4 astronauts aboard have officially surpassed the record set by Apollo 13 for the furthest any human has ever travelled. They will reach a maximum distance of 252,752 miles away from Earth, which is about 4,102 miles further than the Apollo 13 mission flew in 1970. In honor of this accomplishment, the astronauts decided to name two previously unnamed moon craters. One they named after their spacecraft, 'Integrity.' The other they named after Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman's wife, Carroll, who passed away from cancer in 2020. #nasa #artemisii #moon #apollo13
Artemis II's four astronauts have officially gone where no one has gone before, setting on Monday a new distance-from-Earth record for human spaceflight. Why it matters: Artemis II broke Apollo 13's 248,655-mile record, set over 55 years ago on that ill-fated ship's emergency flight home. Driving the news: The lunar quartet has further to go yet. - They'll reach their maximum distance (252,760 miles) just after 7 p.m. ET tonight. What's next: The crew is starting their seven-hour lunar orbit and observation period this afternoon. (Watch live.) - At 6:44 p.m. ET, the crew will enter an expected 40-minute radio blackout on the dark side of the Moon. - They will later witness a solar eclipse, with the Moon blocking the Sun from their…
And how much farther will they travel than the Apollo 13 crew?
The Artemis II astronauts are more than halfway to the moon.