Records
The standing records of spaceflight — the most distant, fastest, and longest-lived of humanity's craft and crews.
- Voyager 1
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.
- Parker Solar Probe
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.
- 2012
Voyager 1 was the first spacecraft to cross the heliopause and enter interstellar space, the region between the stars.
- 437 days
The longest single spaceflight was flown by cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, who spent about 437 days continuously aboard the Mir space station in 1994–1995.
- 1970
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.
- 2000–present
The International Space Station has been continuously inhabited since November 2000, the longest unbroken human presence in space.
- 1977–present
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.