NASA’s Orion spacecraft breaks Apollo 13 flight record<p>The Artemis 1 Orion crew vehicle has set a new record for a NASA flight. At approximately 8:40AM ET on Saturday, Orion flew farther than any spacecraft designed to carry human astronauts had ever before, surpassing the previous record set by Apollo 13 back in 1970. As of 10:17AM ET, Orion was approximately 249,666 miles ( from 401,798 kilometers) from Earth.</p><p>"Artemis I was designed to stress the systems of Orion and we settled on the distant retrograde orbit as a really good way to do that,"
said Jim Geffre, Orion spacecraft integration manager. “It just so happened that with that really large orbit, high altitude above the moon, we were able to pass the Apollo 13 record. But what was more important though, was pushing the boundaries of exploration and sending spacecraft farther than we had ever done before."</p><span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><div id="6f1869f81970491cbc88914ef3386a4b"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Houston, we have a new record
