What (excluding Earth's rotation) is the fastest speed a human has ever travelled?

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What (excluding Earth's rotation) is the fastest speed a human has ever travelled?

Answer 1

Wikipedia comments,'According to the 2001 Guinness World Records Apollo 10 has the record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle: 39,897 km/h (11.08 km/s or 24,791 mph). The speed record was set during the return from the Moon on 26 May 1969.'

However, our sun is orbiting around the centre of our galaxy and Wikipedia further adds,'... It takes the Solar System about 225–250 million years to complete one orbit of the galaxy (a galactic year), so it is thought to have completed 20–25 orbits during the lifetime of the Sun and 1/1250th of a revolution since the origin of humans. The orbital speed of the Solar System about the centre of the Galaxy is approximately 220 km/s. At this speed, it takes around 1,400 years for the Solar System to travel a distance of 1 light-year, or 8 days to travel 1 AU. ...' This, orbital velocity, is about 492,231 miles per hour!

Finally,  ' ... Current measurements suggest the Andromeda Galaxy is approaching us (the Milky Way (our galaxy)) at 100 to 140 kilometres per second. The Milky Way may collide with it in 3 to 4 billion years, depending on the importance of unknown lateral components to the galaxies' relative motion. If they collide, individual stars within the galaxies would not collide, but instead the two galaxies will merge to form a single elliptical galaxy over the course of about a billion year ... '

(Wikipedia). This, is a velocity of 313,338 miles per hour.

Thus, the orbit of the earth about the sun combined with the sun's orbital velocity about the centre of our galaxy is the fastest that humans have ever travelled!

Answer 2

most probably in that motor built to break the world speed record. is called something likes the thrustssc at over 700 mph on land

10000 km/h by train

28,000 km/h on shuttle to space so that would be the fastest

Answer 3

In Earth orbit at about 300Km velocity is about 7.2Km/sec so this is now common. To get to/from the Moon maximum velocity reached is about 11.5Km/sec (this does not and has never escaped Earth orbit. All the increase from 7.2 to 11.5 does is elongate the original orbit's maximum distance from Earth to coincide with the absolute position of the Moon when the craft arrives.). The first manned flight to Mars will have to increase from 7.2 to about 14 and this will produce an eccentricity greater than 1 i.e. the new trajectory does not close and the craft has totally escaped the influence of Earth. If ever we go to the stars velocity required will have to be greater again to exceed the Sun's escape velocity.

Answer 4

25,000 mph - escape velocity - it is the velocity required to escape the Earth's gravity. The Apollo astronauts had to travel at that speed to get to the moon.  

Answer 5

That would be the Apollo 13 astronauts making an emergency return trip from their moon mission. Google that.

Answer 6

Re-entering earths atmosphere from space. Space shuttle is approximately 15,000 mph.

Answer 7

well in the atmosphere (not outer space) its mach 6(6 speed of sound) which is 6000km/hour

Answer 8

it must be astronauts in space when orbiting the earth. they travel at speeds between 17,000mph and 18,000mph.