Astronauts could break record for farthest humans have travelled from Earth

Before the trans-lunar injection burn that propelled the spacecraft towards the Moon, the predicted maximum distance from Earth that the astronauts were estimated to reach was 219,639 nautical miles. That was based on a "perfect" burn. Frieling says he has not since run the numbers to calculate the new distance but it could be historic. The current record for the farthest humans have travelled from Earth is held by the Apollo 13 crew who in 1970 reached about 216,000 nautical miles, Fr