Artemis II Astronauts Break Apollo Record For Farthest Distance Humans Have Traveled From Earth
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/04/06/1924227/artemis-ii-astronauts-break-apollo-record-for-farthest-distance-humans-have-traveled-from-earth
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> The Artemis II crew of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen have set the record for the farthest distance from Earth traveled by a human mission, surpassing the Apollo 13 record of 248,655 miles set in 1970.
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> NASA Flight Director Brandon Lloyd, Capsule Communicator Amy Dill, and Command and Handling Data Officer Brandon Borter also marked a lighthearted milestone today by emailing the crew what is now assumed to be the longest person-to-person message ever sent in human history. After breaking the record for human spaceflight, crew also took a moment to provisionally name a couple of craters on the Moon, noting they were able to see them with their naked eye.
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> Just northwest of Orientale basin highlighted above is a crater they would like to name Integrity after their spacecraft and this historic mission. Just northeast of Integrity, on the near and far side boundary, and sometimes visible from Earth, the crew suggested Carroll crater in honor of Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll Taylor Wiseman. After this mission is complete, the crater name proposals will be formally submitted to the International Astronomical Union, the organization that governs the naming of celestial bodies and their surface features.
On April 1, NASA [2]successfully launched humanity's first crewed trip around the Moon in more than 50 years. A couple of days into the mission, attention turned to a more mundane problem when reports said the astronauts had access to " [3]two Microsoft Outlooks " and neither was working properly. By April 4, the crew had [4]passed 100,000 miles from Earth as they continued deeper into space, and by April 6, they had [5]entered the Moon's gravitational pull and caught their first views of the lunar far side.
[1] https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/06/artemis-ii-flight-day-6-lunar-flyby-updates/
[2] https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/04/01/2250202/nasa-launches-artemis-ii-astronauts-around-the-moon
[3] https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/04/02/1641256/artemis-ii-astronauts-have-two-microsoft-outlooks-and-neither-work
[4] https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/04/03/2326236/artemis-ii-astronauts-pass-100000-miles-from-earth-on-voyage-to-the-moon
[5] https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/04/06/0228229/artemis-astronauts-enter-moons-gravitational-pull-catch-first-glimpses-of-far-side
You can run but... (Score:2)
No matter how far away you get, Outlook and shitty new Outlook will find you! (and fail to work properly).
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It's good that Outlook adheres to the cosmological principle.
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> It's good that Outlook adheres to the cosmological principle.
If it's any consolation, it is estimated based on current functionality that Outlook will function perfectly within the gravitational pull of a black hole.
Even if nothing else will.**
Including you.
(** Yes. The damn thing will still need a spam filter. Fucking cockroaches.)
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lol. Commenting with lol is lame... but I had to. lol.
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Don't forget broken bathrooms; maybe you covered that with "shitty" outlook?
humanity (Score:2)
Can anyone explain how this has moved humanity ahead?
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They are proving that Outlook will fail anywhere, this is valuable knowledge. Oh, and New Outlook will fail everywhere - they are testing them so that we don't have to.
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I guess they had to send people because what happens if outlook fails and no one sees it fail. Then has it failed?
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Well, it definitely moved the furthest distance humanity has traveled from the Earth ahead.
I have a feeling you're asking a purely values-based subjective question though. Can't help you there. Have you moved humanity ahead lately?
If you thought you had, would I agree with you?
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Well I'm not American, but if I was American I would like to feel like tens of billions of dollars of tax money didn't go towards nothing. Especially if I was paying high gas prices and high tariffs already under the guise of reducing the deficit. Just saying.
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Tens of billions of dollars?
The US pulls in almost 5000 billion dollars of tax money per year .
I don't think 10 billion dollars were going to change our "high gas prices" (I'm going to find that particularly funny if you're European) and "high tariffs" (I guess they're higher than the EU blank 20% on Chinese imports?)
I still think you might just be trying to swing your politics around.
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> Can anyone explain how this has moved humanity ahead?
The mission demonstrated that people like you will need to be shipped even further into the void of space so that we can be free of your worthless communications.
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> Can anyone explain how this has moved humanity ahead?
By pseudo-embracing the 80's motto of, be kind and rewind ..history?
Sorry. Was trying to justify it about as well as JFK did.
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They went ~4000 miles further past the moon than in the 1970s. With the Artemis program clocking in at $93B so far, that makes it only ~$23M for each extra mile. This is an extreme bargain considering HS2 in the UK is running at >$600M a mile and is only a railway line. Bravo to NASA!
NASA forgot to pay its ISP (Score:2)
That, or Boeing is the ISP...
Did someone tell the americans... (Score:2)
.. that there's a foreigner, a woman, and a black pilot in that spaceship?
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What is this, a joke?
"A foreigner, a woman, and a black pilot walk into a spacecraft..."
Information lacking from summary/article (Score:3)
Artemis II is breaking Apollo 13's record by about 4100 miles. The primary reason they're going further is because they're passing much farther from the moon, about 4000 miles, compared to 158 miles for Apollo 13. The moon is also a little further from Earth, accounting for the other 250 miles.
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Thank you for that. It's a notable omission that the summary says, "Artemis II has broken the Apollo 13 record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from Earth. ... surpassing the Apollo 13 record of 248,655 miles set in 1970." But it never says just how far away they got, or by how much they exceeded the previous record. Seems like a weird omission, like saying someone broke the record for pole-vaulting and mentioning the previous record but not the new one.
My god (Score:4, Funny)
It's full of Outlooks.