Artemis Crew Breaks Moon Distance Record

0:00It's April 6th. This is Vancouver News Today, powered by AI, I'm Cory with the story. Tomorrow, NASA's Artemis 2nd crew hits the closest point to the moon in over 50 years, flying by at just 4,066 miles from the buy. Surface. The four astronauts, Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hanson launched last Wednesday, April 1st, on this test run for future. Lunar landings. Around 2 p.m. New York time, they'll smash the record for farthest humans have gone from Earth, topping Apollo 13 from 1970. Then at 7 p.m. they peeked during the flyby, snapping shots of the moon's far side that hidden view we never see from here. This crew makes history too. Glover as the first black astronaut moonbound, Coke the first woman, and Hanson the first Canadian, NASA plays it cool on the distance milestone. The mission controls got a countdown clock ticking anyway. During the pass, starting 2.45 p.m. they'll eyeball details with those trained eyes, spotting

1:03colors and features no one seen, a close. A 40 minute comm's blackout hits at 6.47 p.m. when the far side blocks Earth. All this paves the way for boots on the lunar ground, and about 2 years, pushing us deeper into space exploration.