The astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis II have now traveled farther from Earth than any other humans in history, breaking the Apollo 13 record.
"As we surpass the furthest distance humans have ever traveled from planet Earth, we do so in honoring the extraordinary efforts and feats as our predecessors in human space exploration," Reid Wiseman, the Artemis II commander, said from the spaceship. "We will continue our journey even further into space before mother Earth succeeds in pulling us back to everything we hold dear. While, we most importantly choose this moment to challenge this generation and the next to make sure this record is not long lived."
This flight was to test life support on the spaceships and make observations of the moon's surface.
Artemis II will continue to travel the rest of Monday and this evening, they will become the first humans to view certain parts of the moon with unaided eyes, as well as hit the 252,760-mile mark from Earth, breaking Apollo 13's record by about 4,070 miles.



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