How Far Will Artemis Go?

Even with the numbers at hand, it can be hard to visualise the sheer distances involved in interplanetary space travel

Artemis 1 has successfully launched towards the Moon. At the time of writing, it is about 135,000 km from Earth, after around 15 hours of flight. Despite having lost speed as it climbed out of our planets gravity well, it is still travelling at almost 2 kilometres per second. Even at this speed, it will not arrive at the Moon for several days. NASA has …