The record Apollo 13 set for the farthest humans had ever travelled from Earth was never meant to be a record — it was a survival manoeuvre after an explosion, and Artemis II quietly surpassed it on a clear April morning in 2026

The farthest humans had ever travelled from Earth used to be a record born out of failure. Apollo 13 did not set out to become a distance marker in human spaceflight. It set out to land on the Moon. Instead, an oxygen tank explosion in April 1970 turned the mission into a fight to bring [...] The post The record Apollo 13 set for the farthest humans had ever travelled from Earth was never meant to be a record — it was a survival manoeuvre after an explosion, and Artemis II quietly surpassed it o