Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, was the first person to travel into space and orbit the Earth in 1961. He traveled approximately 203 miles (327 kilometers) above the Earth.
The furthest man-made object from Earth is space probe Voyager 1,launched 1977.It is,as of May 9,2011,about 17,300,000,000km from the Sun.
The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut. He flew into space aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961. Gagarin required extensive training, a specially designed spacecraft, and a powerful rocket to reach space.
The farthest objects detected are estimated to lie at distances of something like14 billion light years from us.But it must be noted that measuring those distances takes a lot of ingenuity,and there are still a lot of questions among serious cosmologists regardingthe accuracy of today's best estimates.
The farthest a human has traveled from Earth was during the Apollo 13 mission in 1970, when the crew swung around the far side of the moon at a distance of about 400,171 km (248,655 miles) from Earth. Since then, most human spaceflights have been confined to low Earth orbit.
neil armstrong
Voyager 1 is the furthest and Voyager 2 is the second furthest
Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, was the first person to travel into space and orbit the Earth in 1961. He traveled approximately 203 miles (327 kilometers) above the Earth.
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To the moon 1969.
The furthest man-made satellite from Earth is Voyager 1 - launched on the 5th of September 1977.
Neil Armstrong
No one has every been to Mercury. The furthest man has been is to the Moon. Probes have been sent to Mercury
From Cape Canaveral, around the moon, and back to earth. Greatest distance from earth during the trip = about 240,000 miles, or roughly -- 0.0056 of the shortest possible distance to Mars, -- 0.0026 of the distance to the sun, -- 0.00000004 of the distance to the nearest star outside the solar system.
The furthest man-made object from Earth is space probe Voyager 1,launched 1977.It is,as of May 9,2011,about 17,300,000,000km from the Sun.
The moon is the farthest a man has traveled. Mars is planned for 2018.
The voyager space probes that visited the outer planets in the 70's and 80's, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and Saturn, while the Voyager 2 probe visited all four gas giant planets; Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 is the furthest man made object from Earth at around 122AU from Earth as of September 2012. That is 122 times the distance between the Earth and Sun.