Does space station orbit farther out than the moon?

The link clearly says "NASA climate observatory" which refers to DSCOVR: Deep Space Climate Observatory. That is not a photo taken by astronauts on board the International Space Station. It is taken by the climate observatory probe (which is unmanned), that I linked above. read more

The link clearly says "NASA climate observatory" which refers to DSCOVR: Deep Space Climate Observatory That is not a photo taken by astronauts on board the International Space Station. read more

Sojourns to the Earth-moon L2 would take humans farther than they have ever been from Earth. The Lagrange points for the Earth-moon system. NASA is evaluating an early mission with the Orion capsule placed at Earth-moon L2. read more

This future science station, which will effectively replace the International Space Station when it reaches retirement age in the 2020s, will be a fraction of the size but carry astronauts hundreds of thousands of miles farther into space. In fact, it might travel farther away from our planet than any other human-piloted spacecraft, including the Apollo missions. read more