http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-112622a-artemis-i-breaks-apollo-13-distance-earth-record.html WebTHE FARTHEST tells the captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity’s greatest achievements in exploration: NASA’s Voyager mission, which …
List of spaceflight records - Wikipedia
WebApr 17, 1970 · The Farthest Distance From Earth Reached by Humans. On April 15, 1970, Apollo 13 was 254 km (158 miles) from the lunar surface on the far side of the moon—and 400,171 km (248,655 miles) above ... WebApr 15, 2024 · And on April 17 at 12:42 UTC (or April 17 at 8:42 a.m. EDT), New Horizons will reach a rare deep-space milepost -- 50 astronomical units from the Sun, or 50 times … cuspated board
Farthest sample-and-return mission Guinness World Records
WebFarthest sample-and-return mission. On 13 June 2010, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa returned to Earth after a sampling mission to the Itokawa asteroid 300 million km from Earth. The probe landed successfully on the 250-m-wide (820-ft) asteroid on 25 November 2005 and collected dust samples for analysis back on Earth. WebApollo 13, U.S. spaceflight, launched on April 11, 1970, that suffered an oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon, threatening the lives of three astronauts—commander Jim Lovell, lunar module pilot Fred Haise, and command module pilot Jack Swigert. Apollo 13 was launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, by a giant Saturn V launch vehicle and only … WebAug 30, 2024 · The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes launched 45 years ago, the first on Aug. 20, 1977 and the second on Sept. 5, and they are now the farthest human-made objects from Earth, at about three ... chase trace