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The Cancelled Destination

Why Artemis II’s Real Achievement Is the One Everyone’s About to Forget

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A Z Mackay
Apr 21, 2026
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On the evening of April 10, a capsule named Integrity hit the Pacific. Four people climbed out onto the deck of the USS John P. Murtha: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen. They were the first people to travel beyond low Earth orbit in fifty-four years. They had covered roughly 695,000 miles, pushing the farthest-from-Earth record…

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