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Artemis 2 and Tiangong space station astronauts set record for farthest distance between humans

Space·https://www.space.com/author/julian-dossett·about 1 month ago
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NASA’s Orion spacecraft captures the moon and Earth in one frame during the Artemis 2 crew’s deep space journey in April 2026, on the sixth day of the mission. (Image credit: NASA) Here's another record that Artemis 2 broke. For a few moments on April 6, the four Artemis 2 moon astronauts and the three crewmates aboard China's Tiangong space station were farther away from each other than any other humans had ever been. At first, McDowell highlighted the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as contenders for the farthest folks from the Artemis 2 quartet. But he amended that statement in a later post, noting that Tiangong was actually slightly more distant. On April 6, as Integrity flew around the moon's far side, it got a maximum of 260,754 miles (419,643 kilometers) from Tiangong, according to McDowell. The max Integrity-to-ISS distance, meanwhile, was 260,715.5 miles (419,581 km). Space.com asked McDowell what made him think to calculate these distances in the first place.…

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