NASA Artemis II Crew Sets Distance Record for Space Travel.

The article focuses on NASA's Artemis II mission, during which a crew of four astronauts aboard a Lockheed Martin-built capsule has traveled farther into space than any humans in history, surpassing the Apollo 13 distance record. The mission includes a historic lunar flyby, bringing the crew within approximately 4,070 miles of the moon's surface and allowing them to observe and photograph the moon's far side, which has never been seen directly by humans. The crew consists of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover (the first Black astronaut to travel to the moon), Christina Koch (the first woman to do so), and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen (the first Canadian to travel to the moon). Artemis II serves as a critical test for future missions aimed at landing humans on the lunar surface. [Extracted from the article]