At its halfway point, NASA’s Artemis I mission breaks a record

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  • 30-11-2022, 23:15
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    INA – SOURCES
     
    NASA’s Orion spacecraft reached its farthest distance from Earth, clocking in at 268,563 miles away from our planet. This marks the halfway point of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, and the spacecraft will now continue its orbit around the Moon before heading back toward Earth.
     
    “Artemis I has had extraordinary success and has completed a series of history-making events,” NASA administrator Bill Nelson said in a press conference, pointing out that Orion was the first spacecraft designed to carry humans to enter a distant retrograde lunar orbit and that it has surpassed the record for the furthest distance traveled away from Earth by a human-rated spacecraft.
     
    During Orion’s orbit around the Moon, which will last about a week, it is collecting data on the conditions human astronauts can expect to experience on future Artemis missions. Of particular concern is space radiation, which astronauts will be exposed to once they leave Earth’s protective magnetosphere.