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Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object from Earth, over 24 billion kilometres away and still receding, having crossed into interstellar space in 2012.

The Parker Solar Probe is the fastest human-made object, reaching speeds of hundreds of thousands of kilometres per hour as the Sun's gravity accelerates it through its closest approaches.

Voyager 1 was the first spacecraft to cross the heliopause and enter interstellar space, the region between the stars.

The longest single spaceflight was flown by cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, who spent about 437 days continuously aboard the Mir space station in 1994–1995.

The crew of Apollo 13 travelled farther from Earth than any humans before or since, swinging around the far side of the Moon on a free-return trajectory after their spacecraft was crippled.

The International Space Station has been continuously inhabited since November 2000, the longest unbroken human presence in space.

The two Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, are the longest-operating interplanetary spacecraft, still returning data from beyond the planets after more than four decades.