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  2. Halfway done: Orion reaches farthest distance from Earth on ...

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    ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA officials said the Orion spacecraft traveled to its farthest distance from Earth on Monday, two days after breaking a record set by Apollo 13. On Saturday, Orion, which ...

  3. Orion (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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    Orion (Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists of a Crew Module (CM) space capsule designed by Lockheed Martin that is paired with a European Service Module (ESM) manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space .

  4. List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    Pioneer 10 – launched in 1972, flew past Jupiter in 1973 and is heading in the direction of Aldebaran (65 light years away) in the constellation of Taurus.Contact was lost in January 2003, and it is estimated to have passed 134 astronomical units (AU; one AU is roughly the average distance between Earth and the Sun: 150 million kilometers (93 million miles)).

  5. Astronomical unit - Wikipedia

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    Average distance from the Sun – Earth: 1.00 – Average distance of Earth's orbit from the Sun (sunlight travels for 8 minutes and 19 seconds before reaching Earth) – Mars: 1.52 – Average distance from the Sun – Jupiter: 5.2 – Average distance from the Sun – Light-hour: 7.2 – Distance light travels in one hour – Saturn: 9.5 ...

  6. NASA's Orion spacecraft sets new distance record - AOL

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    And just over an hour ago, Orion set another record, clocking its maximum distance from Earth, 270,000 miles."The Artemis I mission marks an big change in direction for NASA's human spaceflight ...

  7. Solar System - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the Sun occupies 0.00001% (1 part in 10 7) of the volume of a sphere with a radius the size of Earth's orbit, whereas Earth's volume is roughly 1 millionth (10 −6) that of the Sun. Jupiter, the largest planet, is 5.2 AU from the Sun and has a radius of 71,000 km (0.00047 AU; 44,000 mi), whereas the most distant planet, Neptune, is 30 AU ...

  8. NASA's Orion spacecraft sets new distance record - AOL

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    And just over an hour ago, Orion set another record, clocking its maximum distance from Earth, 270,000 miles."The Artemis I mission marks an big change in direction for NASA's human spaceflight ...

  9. NASA's Orion photographed the Earth and Moon from a ... - AOL

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    Orion took the snapshot around its maximum distance from Earth of 268,563 miles. That's the farthest any human-oriented spacecraft has traveled, beating even Apollo 13's record of 248,655 miles ...