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Four Artemis astronauts are flying further from Earth than any human has ventured before. After hitting one of the most tense points in their mission, a 40-minute communications blackout as the Orion capsule flies directly behind the Moon, the astronauts will be slingshotted back towards Earth. All being well, their craft will return late on Friday, when Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koc…

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Four Artemis astronauts have flown further from Earth than any human has ventured before. At around 7pm BST, the astronauts travelled more than 248,655 miles from Earth, breaking the previous record set by the Apollo 13 crew in 1970. They then hit one of the most tense points in their mission: a 40-minute communications blackout as the Orion capsule flew directly behind the Moon, reaching a dista…

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Four people will go further from Earth on Monday than anyone has been before – and they will be beyond contact or help. For 40 nail-biting minutes the astronauts on Nasa’s Artemis II mission to fly round the far side of the Moon will be out of reach of any signal from or to Earth. Radio signals cannot pass through the Moon so the astronauts will have no means of communication with Earth, but they…

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