Space Daily·2 min read·medium
Apollo 13 set the record for the farthest humans had travelled from Earth by accident in 1970, after an explosion forced it into an emergency loop around the Moon. Artemis II broke it by design in Apr
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The article compares the distance records set by the Apollo 13 mission and the Artemis II mission. While Apollo 13 reached its record distance due to an emergency trajectory, Artemis II achieved a new record by design.
The Apollo 13 distance record was never meant to be a monument. It was a byproduct of a rescue. In April 1970, Apollo 13 was supposed to land in the Fra Mauro highlands. Instead, an oxygen tank explosion crippled the spacecraft, killed the lunar land... [6672 chars]
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