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At their nearest distance to the Moon, the Artemis II’s Orion capsule came within an estimated 6,.
Artemis II's Orion capsule came within 6,545km of the lunar surface, the closest in 50 years.
KEY POINTS
- The crew broke Apollo 13's distance record, reaching 406,771km from Earth.
- Victor Glover is the first Black astronaut and Christina Koch the first woman to travel to the moon.
- The crew observed a solar eclipse from Orion, enabling unique imaging of the Sun's corona.
- NASA aims to use crew observations to study 60% of the moon's far side never seen by humans.
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