What is the fastest speed MEN has ever achieved?

Question

land , water , air , space ,............ ?

Answer 1

The official records are:

Land: 1997 September 25, by Andy Green, 1223.65 km/h

Water: 1978 October 8, by Ken Warby, 511.13 km/h

Aircraft: 1976 July 28, by Eldon W. Joersz, 3,529.56 km/h

Space: 1969 May 26, Apollo 10 capsule (on re-entry) ~39,885 km/h (some sources say 39,897 km/h),
* Thomas Stafford, commander
* John W. Young, command module pilot
* Eugene Cernan, lunar module pilot

Answer 2

The fastest absolute speed men have ever achieved is 24,790 mph by the Apollo 10 capsule upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, on May 26, 1969.

Answer 3

Land (unofficially) -- over 720 MPH in the rocket powered car "The Budweiser Special"

Air -- the SR-71 Blackbird has been clocked at over 2,500 MPH

Space -- over 7 miles per second in a Saturn V rocket

Water -- no idea, but hydroplanes can travel in excess of 200 nautical miles per hour

Answer 4

Relative to the Earth, the quickest human beings have traveled is approximately 39,895 kph (24,790 mph), which happened Apollo 10's return holiday from the Moon. As for coming near the fee of sunshine, the question will become "who's measuring it?". an outdoors observer won't in any respect degree a spaceship shifting relative to Earth swifter than gentle, via fact physics prohibits this. even nonetheless, somebody interior the deliver ought to degree themselves shifting relative to Earth swifter than gentle, via effects of time dilation (see Einstein's particular relativity).

Answer 5

Approximately 25,000 mph if you are talking about a man himself flying in a craft. If you mean what's the fastest speed that man can make something go then its the speed of light.

Answer 6

Here is one left out Joseph Kittinger August 16, 1960
Free falling from 102,800 Ft @ 614 MPH.