Fastest
- The Apollo 10 crew; Thomas Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene Cernan achieved the highest speed relative to Earth ever attained by humans; 39,896 km/h (11.1 km/s, 24,790 mph, approximately 0.000037 percent of the speed of light). The record was set 26 May 1969.
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