2007-01-29 22:15:39 · 14 answers · asked by sajid_majeed95 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The record was set by Apollo 13 which was 248,655 miles (about 400,000Km) from Earth when it went round the moon.
2007-01-29 22:26:50 · answer #1 · answered by Iridflare 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The farthest place that people have visited in person is our Moon. In our solar system, our Moon is "just next door". It is about 230,000 miles away from the Earth, but the farthest planet Pluto is about 3,720,000,000 (almost 4 billion) miles away.
What about the astronauts on the shuttle and at the space station? They are only 250 to 350 miles above the Earth's surface!
Our spacecraft have gone much further than we have, but not to another star.
The spacecraft that have travelled the farthest are Pioneer 10 and Voyager 1. Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt and fly by Jupiter. It is now 7.4 billion miles away. For a long time, it was the farthest man-made object from the Sun, but recently Voyager 1 passed it. Pioneer is headed in the direction of the red star Aldebaran, and will pass by it in over 2 million years from now.
Voyager 1, shown in the picture, also visited Jupiter and Saturn, and has overtaken Pioneer 10 because it is travelling faster (39,000 miles per hour). It is now 7.8 billion miles away from the Sun. That is so far that it takes almost 12 hours for the radio signal to travel from the spacecraft back to Earth.
By the way the nearest star, alpha Centauri, is about 24 trillion (24 followed by 12 zeroes) miles away!
2007-01-30 06:23:28 · answer #2 · answered by sanjaykchawla 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well the furthest Any hooman been has goon wood be de moon at aroond 385000, if you double that for the return jernee then about 770000 miles, give or take a bit
2007-01-30 06:27:03 · answer #3 · answered by Alf B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
people have not travelled farther than the moon but our technology has travelled far beyond i remember watching on TV a programme about a data collection satellite that had a life expectancy of 27 years while travelling through space , and throughout that time it should be able to relay messages and pictures back to earth . i can't remember how fast it moved or when it was launched but we can be sure that it's target is beyond the known planets .
2007-01-30 06:35:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about the goons, I think they are all dead now, aren't they Eccles?
Weren't there some goons in Popeye? perhaps you mean beans not beens.
Hope that this is a suitably incomprehensible answer to a very incomprehensible question
2007-01-30 06:27:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would presume that would have been during the various Apollo missions to the moon - which is about 250,000 miles from earth.
2007-01-30 06:24:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are goons everywhere even in outer space.
2007-01-30 06:21:51 · answer #7 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The moon - somewhere around 250,000 miles away.
2007-01-30 09:46:33 · answer #8 · answered by Hello Dave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The otherside of the moon.
About 400,000 miles or so.
2007-01-30 06:20:36 · answer #9 · answered by Ritch 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
why don't people remember the people that got lost /disappeared ?while out there not much said about them
2007-01-30 06:53:01 · answer #10 · answered by ufo18 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋