While looping around the moon, the four astronauts aboard the Orion capsule surpass Apollo 13's record, journeying over 250,000 miles away from home

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

The highlight of the Artemis II mission is approaching - as its astronauts prepare to beat Apollo 13's record by travelling the furthest distance into space from Earth. Follow the latest on their six-hour flyby of the moon later,

The Arte m is II mission's crew is expected to fly around the moon on Monday, April 6, the crew's sixth day of traveling hundreds of thousands of miles through space. As of 10:20 a.m. ET on Monday, April 6,

April 7, 2026. En route to a rare crewed flyby over the perpetually shadowed far side of the moon, the crew of the Ar

A view of the Moon and the Earth as the Artemis II mission's Orion spacecraft approaches to reach its furthest distance from Earth, in this screengrab taken from a livestream video on. NASA/Handout via REUTERS HOUSTON,