Who has traveled the farthest from Earth?

Question

Among those who have traveled into outerspace, what are the names of the individuals who have traveled the farthest away from Earth?

Answer 1

well since they went on the moon, i would suspect that -.-

Answer 2

The far side of the Moon is the furthest any human being has traveled from home. So that would mean all the astronauts from Apollos 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 would be tied. That's 27 people in all.

Answer 3

The crews of the Apollo lunar missions: Apollo 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17. You can look up their names yourself.

Apollo 7 and Apollo 9 were Earth-orbit flights to check out the CSM and LM, respectively. Apollo 18, 19 and 20 were planned but cancelled. Except for Apollo 1, the others were unmanned test flights.

Answer 4

That would be the 27 astronauts who have traveled to the vicinity of the moon. Sorry, I don't recall all of their names, but they were on Apollos 8, 10, 11,12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17. If you really need names, google those missions.

Answer 5

All the astronauts that went to the moon went the farthest?

[edit] People who have walked on the Moon
As of 2007, twelve people have walked on the Moon. No one has walked on the Moon since 1972.

Name Born Age on
First Step Mission EVA dates Age today
1 Neil Armstrong 5 August 1930 38y 11m 15d Apollo 11 July 20, 1969 77
2 Buzz Aldrin 20 January 1930 39y 6m 0d 77
3 Pete Conrad* 2 June 1930 39y 5m 17d Apollo 12 November 19-20, 1969 died 8 July 1999, age 69
4 Alan Bean 15 March 1932 37y 8m 4d 75
5 Alan Shepard* 18 November 1923 47y 2m 18d Apollo 14 February 5-6, 1971 died 21 July 1998, age 74
6 Edgar Mitchell 17 September 1930 40y 4m 19d 77
7 David Scott 6 June 1932 41y 1m 25d Apollo 15 July 31–August 2, 1971 75
8 James Irwin* 17 March 1930 41y 4m 14d died 8 August 1991, age 61
9 John W. Young 24 September 1930 41y 6m 28d Apollo 16 April 21-23, 1972 77
10 Charles Duke 3 October 1935 36y 6m 18d 72
11 Eugene Cernan 14 March 1934 38y 9m 7d Apollo 17 December 11-14, 1972 73
12 Harrison Schmitt 3 July 1935 37y 5m 8d 72

*Deceased
Duke was the youngest, at age 36 (+6mo); Shepard was the oldest, at age 47 (+2mo).

James A. Lovell, Young, and Cernan are the only three astronauts to fly more than one lunar mission (two each). Of these three, only Lovell did not walk on the lunar surface. Lovell and Fred Haise were prevented from walking on the Moon by the malfunction on Apollo 13 that resulted in the mission being aborted.

Joe Engle had also trained to explore the Moon with Gene Cernan as the backup crew for Apollo 14, but Engle was later replaced by geologist Jack Schmitt when the primary crew for Apollo 17 was selected. Schmitt had been crewed with Dick Gordon in anticipation for Apollo 18. But when Apollo 18 was cancelled, Schmitt bumped Engle, leaving Gordon as the last Apollo astronaut who had trained extensively for lunar exploration without ever getting a chance to fly a lunar landing.

[edit] People who flew around the Moon without landing
On each of the missions listed above one astronaut orbited the Moon while the other two landed. In addition each of the Apollo 8, Apollo 10, and Apollo 13 missions had a three-man crew and closely encountered the Moon (entering orbit in the case of the former two missions, while Apollo 13 only passed around it). Thus twelve more people have been within a few hundred kilometers of the Moon (along with Young and Cernan who flew out to the Moon and back without landing, but landed on subsequent missions):


Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to reach the Moon (Frank Borman, center)Frank Borman - Apollo 8
Jim Lovell - Apollo 8, Apollo 13: intended to land
William Anders - Apollo 8
Tom Stafford - Apollo 10
*John Young - Apollo 10 (* - later landed on Apollo 16)
**Eugene Cernan - Apollo 10 (** - later landed on Apollo 17)
Michael Collins - Apollo 11
Dick Gordon - Apollo 12 (had been slated to land on Apollo 18) [2]
Jack Swigert - Apollo 13
Fred Haise - Apollo 13: intended to land (had been slated to land on Apollo 19) [2]
Stuart Roosa - Apollo 14 (had been slated to land on Apollo 21) [2]
Al Worden - Apollo 15
Ken Mattingly - Apollo 16
Ronald Evans - Apollo 17

Answer 6

The fartherest distance away from Earth at this time is

SURFACE OF EARTH TO FAR SIDE OF THE MOON.

So, the list would include everyone, Russians and Americans, who flew to the Moon and orbited it at least
once before landing. The list is fairly long.

Answer 7

Apollo astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, Conrad, Lovell, etc,.

Answer 8

The astronauts that went to the moon.There has been man made space crafts that went further.

Answer 9

I guess that the only ones to achive that are the guys that went to the moon...