If They Didn't Want To Have It Embarrassing Them For Quite So Long.

Perhaps they shouldn't have sent it out quite so far.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/26/artemis-i-flight-day-11-orion-surpasses-apollo-13-record-distance-from-earth/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_R74F_-v00 (Skinhead Moonstomp, The Specials, Audio, OxBlood66).