The greatest distance from Earth achieved by humans was when the crew of the Apollo 13 were at apocynthion (i.e. their farthest point) 254 km (158 miles) from the lunar surface, on the far side of the Moon, and 400,171 km (248,655 miles) above the Earths surface, at 1:21a.m. BST on 15 Apr 1970. The crew were Capt. James Arthur Lovell, Jr, USN (b. 25 Mar 1928), Fred Wallace Haise, Jr (b. 14 Nov 1933) and John L. Swigert (1931–82).
Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin (Russia) assisted by caddy Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria (USA) teed-off during a six-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on 23 February 2006. Element 21 Golf (Canada) paid an undisclosed sum for the stunt, which was permitted by the Russian space agency as a means of raising cash. NASA estimated that the ball would orbit for three days before burning up in the atmosphere a distance of 2.02 million km (1.26 million miles). The Russians put their estimate at 740 million
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7.52 m (24 ft 8.06 in) Galina Chistyakova (USSR) Leningrad, USSR (now St Petersburg, Russia) 11 June 1988
Since the demotion of Pluto as a planet in 2006, Neptune is now the farthest major planet from the Sun. At 4.5 billion km (2.8 billion miles) from the Sun, it orbits at 5.45 km (3.38 miles) per second, taking 164.79 years to complete one orbit.
The farthest distance that a mobile (cell) phone has been thrown by a male competitor is 95.83 m (314 ft 5 in) by Chris Hughff (UK) at the 2007 UK Mobile Throwing Championships.
The fastest film produced (script to screen) is ‘Shotgun Garfunkel’, which was produced by Best Local Fast Sheep Productions (South Africa) in 10 days 10 hours and 30 minutes, in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 1-11 May 2013. Best Local Fast Sheep Productions is a combination of 3 production companies, who joined forces for the purpose of the record attempt: Team Best (Asher Stoltz and Bryan van Niekerk), Localala Productions (Johnny Barbazano and Tiffany Barbazano), and Ghost Sheep Productions (Meren Reddy and Ryan Norwood-Young). These 6
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The fastest 100 meter dash in Olympic Summer Games (PlayStation) was set on 30 June 2000 by Carlos Kruegar (Brazil), who set a record of 6.980 seconds. The game was set to factory default when he achieved the record.
Battletoads (Nintendo, 1991) is revered by beat-em-up fans not only as one of the best-looking NES titles ever made, but also as one of the genre’s most difficult games, which makes Pablo Bert’s record completion time of 34 min 17 sec all the more impressive. Bert completed his record-breaking speed run through all 12 levels of the game on 13 May 2008. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010
Christa Rypins (USA) ran 400 m while juggling three objects in a time of 1 min 16 sec at the International Juggling Association’s Joggling Championships, Los Angeles, California, USA, held in July 1990.
On 16 November 2004, NASA’s (USA) unmanned Hyper-X (X-43A) scramjet aircraft reached Mach 9.68, nearly 7,000 mph or almost ten times the speed of sound. The X-43A was boosted to an altitude of 33,000 m (115,000 ft) by a Pegasus rocket launched from beneath a B52-B aircraft. The revolutionary aircraft then successfully burned its engine before plunging into the Pacific Ocean.