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Artemis II performs closest Moon flyby amid communication loss

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“NASA’s Orion spacecraft, carrying four astronauts, performed its long-awaited lunar flyby, coming within roughly 4,070 miles (6,550 km) of the lunar surface and entering the Moon’s gravitational sphere of influence.”
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The provided evidence only contains general Wikipedia articles about Artemis I and Artemis III, but none of the snippets confirm the specific details of a lunar flyby passing within 4,070 miles (6,550 km) or entering the gravitational sphere of influence. The claim appears to be based on external reporting not fully captured in the provided snippets, leading to a single-source assessment based on the premise that the claim is highly specific and requires external confirmation beyond the provided context.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis I, formerly Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), was an uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission that launched on November 16, 2022. As the first major spaceflight of NASA's Artemis program, Artemis I marked t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis III is planned to be the second crewed mission of the NASA-led Artemis lunar exploration program, with a targeted launch in mid-2027. The crew will launch aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Constellation program (abbreviated CxP) was a crewed spaceflight program developed by NASA, the space agency of the United States, from 2005 to 2009. The major goals of the program, in which no cr…
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“In a planned and highly anticipated phase of the journey, Mission Control in Houston lost contact with the crew at around 6:43 PM EST for approximately 40 minutes. The communication blackout occurred when the Moon blocked radio and laser signals between the Earth-based Deep Space Network and the Orion spacecraft.”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists only of Wikipedia articles detailing Apollo 13, Apollo 17, and STS-88. None of these sources mention a planned communication blackout with the crew due to the Moon blocking signals for the Artemis mission, making verification impossible with the given data.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970,…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Mod…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — STS-88 was the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour, and took the first American module, the Unity node, to the station. The se…
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“While out of contact, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, focused on their scientific objectives, photographing and observing the lunar far side – including the 600-mile-wide Orientale basin.”
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The evidence confirms that Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman, and Victor Glover are NASA astronauts, and that Jeremy Hansen is associated with NASA/CSA missions. However, the provided Wikipedia snippets do not contain any information confirming that they observed the lunar far side or the 600-mile-wide Orientale basin during a communication blackout.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Christina Hammock Koch ( KUUK; née Hammock; born January 29, 1979) is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. On her long-term mission to the International Space Station in 2019–2020, she conducted t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gregory Reid Wiseman (born November 11, 1975) is an American naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He was the commander of the 2026 Artemis II lunar flyby mission, the first crewed flight around the Moon …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Victor Jerome Glover Jr. (born April 30, 1976) is an American naval officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut of the 2013 class. A former F/A‑18 pilot and graduate of the United States Air Force Test Pi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Glover
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“While the Artemis II crew are experiencing their own personal solar eclipse, Mission Control will temporarily lose communications with the capsule. This is planned and expected. We anticipate regaining communications in about 30 minutes.”
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“The mission’s defining moment also saw the crew break a 56-year-old record, surpassing the 248,655-mile mark set by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970.”
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““On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and now begin their journey home,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a statement on X.”
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“The flyby marks a crucial test for NASA as the agency prepares for future lunar landings, with the capsule now on a four-day return trajectory.”
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