On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission.

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

Wiseman said the crew hoped Artemis II would not hold the record for very long. Artemis II surpassed Apollo 13’s record at 12:56 p.m. Central time. The crew began the flyby of the moon about an hour later. The spacecraft Orion will reach its maximum distance at 7:07 p.m., a total of 252,760 miles from Earth.

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third crewed mission to the surface of the moon, but nearly 56 hours into the flight, command module pilot John “Jack” Swigert radioed a troubling message to Mission Control: "OK, Houston, we've had a problem.