NASA’s Orion capsule breaks distance farthest from Earth record
Capsule flies past Apollo 13's distance record for a spacecraft designed to carry humans.
Dan Verbin
Nov 29, 2022
NASA’s Orion capsule broke the record for the greatest distance from Earth for a spacecraft designed to carry humans on Monday. The craft travelled 270,000 miles away from the Earth on the 11th day of the Artemis mission, breaking Apollo 13’s record. The craft’s mission is to journey beyond the Moon, with a retrograde orbit that began on Friday. Orion will remain in its extended Moon orbit for six more days until its return to Earth on Sunday, where it will touch down in the Pacific Ocean.
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Capsule flies past Apollo 13's distance record for a spacecraft designed to carry humans.
Dan Verbin
Nov 29, 2022
NASA’s Orion capsule broke the record for the greatest distance from Earth for a spacecraft designed to carry humans on Monday. The craft travelled 270,000 miles away from the Earth on the 11th day of the Artemis mission, breaking Apollo 13’s record. The craft’s mission is to journey beyond the Moon, with a retrograde orbit that began on Friday. Orion will remain in its extended Moon orbit for six more days until its return to Earth on Sunday, where it will touch down in the Pacific Ocean.
more............. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/363641