Tonight, around 7pm EDT, the astronauts will reach a new record distance of 252,757 miles from Earth when they loop around the dark side of the moon. In doing so, their mission will help create the next trillion-plus dollar space economy and potentially life-saving solutions here on Earth. American DeepTech recognizes this milestone as a defining inflection point that validates a new generation of deep-space hardware and opens the door to transformative scientific research and commercial enterprise beyond low Earth orbit.