Farthest Humans From Earth
- Apollo 13 crew; Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, John Swigert while passing over the far side of the moon at an altitude of 254 km (158 mi) from the lunar surface, were 400,171 km (248,655 mi) from Earth. This record breaking distance was reached at 0:21 UTC on 15 April 1970.
Read more about this topic: List Of Spaceflight Records
Famous quotes containing the words humans and/or earth:
“So they took soot from the kiln, and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw it in the air, and it caused festering boils on humans and animals.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 9:10.
“The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Related Phrases
Related Words