The Commander of the Artemis II mission has revealed he feared he and his crew would be lost in space after their shuttle strayed too far from Earth.
Reid Wiseman, 50, and his three fellow astronauts were charged with performing a lunar flyby, before being slingshotted back to our planet.
But as they flew over the dark side of the Moon to what NASA had said would be their maximum distance, the number of nautical miles on the odometer continued ticking upwards.
In total the Artemis II crew travelled 219,669 nautical miles – 252,756 standard miles – from Earth, setting a new distance for the
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