Has man ever left earth orbit?

Answer 1

The furthest man has traveled is to the moon. In doing so, he has left the primary orbit of the earth and entered the primary orbit of the moon. However, the moon itself is in orbit around the earth, so he was still, in fact in a secondary orbit with the moon about the earth.

The larger answer is no.

One must ask: is the moon in orbit around the earth? The answer is clearly, "yes!" Thus, anything in orbit around the moon, or on the surface of the moon, is necessarily also in orbit around the earth.

Answer 2

Yes, space 'burials' have sent man (dead ones) further out into space than anyone (living) has ever gone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lunar_astronautsThis is a list of all astronauts directly associated with NASA's Apollo program. There were 29 astronauts that flew in an Apollo spacecraft, 24 of whom left Earth's orbit and flew around the Moon (Apollo 7 and Apollo 9 didn't leave low Earth orbit).

12 of those astronauts landed on the Moon and walked on its surface, and six of those drove a Lunar rover on the Moon. While three astronauts had flown to the Moon twice, none of them landed on the Moon more than once. All were white male citizens of the United States of America. The nine Apollo missions to the moon all occurred between December 1968 and December 1972.

Apart from those twenty-four people who visited the moon, no human being has ever left low Earth orbit (Although human remains have been sent beyond low Earth orbit, see space burial). They have, therefore, been further from the Earth than anyone else.

Answer 3

While probes have ventured beyond the boundaries of the solar system, the farthest humans have gone from Earth is to the Moon. Depending on your definition, this may constitute leaving Earth orbit (since motion is controlled by a source of gravity other than the Earth) or it may not (the Moon itself, of course, is in Earth orbit, or more precisely both the Earth and the Moon are orbiting a shared point between their centres of mass).

Answer 4

Gravitation pull is inversely proportional to the square of the distance, and directly proportional to the mass, so when we traveled to the moon, earth's gravity was significantly negligible when acted upon a small object like the lunar module or our bodies, and the gravity of the moon put us into an orbit around it.

The moon is in Earth's orbit because of it's large mass. The gravitational pull acting on it is much much more than what acts upon a real small object like the lunar module. Think of the fabric of space as Einstein did, like a trampoline rubber sheet with heavy spheres on it. The module would not warp space around it at all.

Therefore technically, the answer is yes, we did leave Earth's orbit when we traveled to the moon.

Answer 5

No. The only other place man has been besides the earth's orbit is the moon, which is still orbiting the earth. The only "destination" outside the Earth's orbit we could reach with our current technology and budget is Mars.

Answer 6

Interesting arguments with the whole 'moon is in orbit' thing, but the Apollo capsules were not in orbit. They had achieved escape velocity and were it not for lunar orbit insertion they would have continued just drifted on forever. In my book that means they were not in earth orbit.

Answer 7

Since the Moon is itself in orbit and man has never went beyond that, then no.

Answer 8

He went to the moon and orbited it!

Answer 9

Yes, most definitely. Have you never heard of the Apollo Missions to the moon and the landings thereon.

Answer 10

I think we did when we went to the moon. I could be wrong though