Apollo 13’s ill-fated 1970 flight, forced into a desperate trajectory after an sudden tank meltdown, turned a survival manoeuvre into an unintended milestone, taking the three astronauts farther from Earth than anyone had been before, reaching roughly 248,655 miles. In recent months Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed flight beyond near-Earth space, quietly eclipsed that distance , carrying four astronauts past the same 248,655-mile point as part of its planned lunar-flyby profile, thereby establishing a unprecedented achievement and closing a chapter that began with an crisis .
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