The Artemis II astronauts will set a new distance record from Earth today

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman looks back at Earth from one of the Orion spacecraft’s main cabin windows. | Image: NASA On April 15th, 1970, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert set a distance record when Apollo 13 traveled 248,655 miles from Earth. Nearly 56 years later, the crew of Artemis II is expected to break that record by several thousand miles when the Orion spacecraft reaches a maximum distance of 252,757 miles away from Earth later today as it completes its flight around the