On Monday, the four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission traveled deeper into space than humans have ever gone before. Integrity, their Orion-class spacecraft, reached a point 252,756 miles from Earth, surpassing Apollo 13’s record, set in 1970, by more than 4,000 miles. The mission, a test flight conducted as part of NASA’s preparations for returning astronauts to the lunar surface, will continue until around April 10, when Integrity is scheduled to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere at approximately 25,000 miles per hour before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego.
What follows is a thoroughly calm, reasonable, and objective analysis of this historic accomplishment.
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