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NASA’s Orion spacecraft has reached its maximum distance from Earth: 252,756 miles.

After setting a new distance record and going behind the Moon, the Artemis II crew has now gone as far away from Earth as they will during the mission.

The team reached the milestone during a planned communications blackout, but they’ve made contact again.

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