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Artemis II crew eclipses record for farthest human spaceflight [SOUND]

# Four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis 2 test flight around the moon have made history, venturing farther from Earth than anyone ever has, breaking the 1970 record set by Apollo 13. Across a six-hour flyby, the crew of the Orion capsule, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen, captured views of the moon’s far side that have never been seen before. The astronauts witnessed a total solar eclipse from their spacecraft, a sight Glover said is truly hard to describe:

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