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From the cabin of Integrity here, as we surpass the furthest distance humans have ever traveled from planet Earth, we do so in honoring the extraordinary efforts and feats of our predecessors in human space exploration, said Pilot Victor Glover.
At 1:57 P.M. EDT on Monday, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen exceeded the distance of 248,655 miles from Earth, the previous record set in 1970 by Apollo 13 astronauts.