New Delhi, April 6 -- NASA's Artemis II mission is making history as humanity's first trip to the moon since 1972. Four astronauts - three Americans and one Canadian - are on track to surpass Apollo 13's record for the farthest distance from Earth while conducting a six-hour lunar flyby on Monday (April 6).

Apollo 13, famously dubbed NASA's "successful failure," missed its lunar landing after an oxygen tank ruptured on the way in 1970. Commander Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert reached a maximum of 248,655 miles (400,171 km) from Earth before safely returning using a free-return trajectory.

Artemis II follows a similar figure-eight path, flying around the moon without landing. Its astronauts are expected to exceed Apollo 13's di...