NASA’s Orion to Set Distance Record Written 29 November 2022
Lockheed Martin engineers and technicians install the heat shield to the Orion crew module July 25, 2018 | Credit: Kim Shiflett; NASA
Gizmodo reports that NASA’s Artemis 1 mission “continues to go well, with Orion entering into its target orbit around the Moon on Friday.” At 4:48 p.m. ET Monday, on what is flight day 13 of the mission, “Orion will reach its maximum distance from Earth, at which point it will be approximately 268,554 miles (432,194 kilometers) from home.” When Orion reaches “this maximum distance point later today, it’ll set a new standard for the farthest that any crew-rated vehicle has traveled from Earth – a standard that likely won’t be bested for years to come.” The spacecraft “had already broken the previous record, set during the Apollo missions, over the weekend, but its journey wasn’t over yet.”
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