NASA’s Artemis astronauts set a new record for the farthest human distance from Earth, surpassing Apollo at 1:57 p.m., while honoring integrity and family with symbolic crater names.

Humanity on Monday traveled the farthest ever into space, breaking the record set more than 50 years ago by Apollo 13. Artemis II’s four astronauts zoomed past Apollo 13’s 248,655-mile mark around 1:56 p.

Artemis II is the first moon-bound crew in more than 53 years, picking up where NASA’s Apollo program left off.

As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half a century, comparisons between Apollo and NASA’s new Artemis program are inevitable.

Artemis II astronauts will be looking at the Moon from a “unique perspective”, as they will be passing by at a much higher altitude compared to the Apollo missions.

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

The Apollo Moon landings are among the most dissected events in history, yet some of their strangest details still hide in the fine print. I have pulled together 10 insane Apollo Moon landing facts you probably never heard, each grounded in documented ...