The four astronauts onboard NASA’s Artemis II mission to the moon have officially traveled farther from our home planet than any other human.
At 1:57 P.M. EDT on Monday, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen exceeded the distance of 248,655 miles (400,171 kilometers) from Earth, the previous record set in 1970 by Apollo 13 astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise.
“Today, for all humanity, you’re pushing that frontier,” Jenni Gibbons, a Canadian astronaut serving as capsule communicator, said from Mission Control to the astronauts.