How far has any astronaut traveled?

Moment Of Um

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Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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About 60 miles above Earth is a line where our atmosphere ends and space begins. That boundary is called the Karman line. Of course, rockets that astronauts take go much farther than that. But just how far from earth have astronauts gone? And what do they need to bring for the trip?! We asked spacesuit designer Pablo de Leon to help us find the answer! Got a question that’s far out? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll shoot for the moon to find the answer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the Brains Behind Brains On, this is the Moment of Um.
0:10.0	Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Zenon Chimnorp from the planet Calorbus.
0:21.7	I've gotten to take a couple of trippies to Irt on my trusty old spaceship.
0:29.4	She's vintage. I loved learning about human beings, eating their human snackies, seeing their human dwelling pods,
0:40.3	whew, a real treaty for me.
0:43.3	But I've been waiting and waiting for my human friends to come visit me on Calorpas.
0:50.3	We have our own snackies.
0:53.3	Have you ever had a crad-not smothered in flutzy?
0:57.0	"'Then you haven't lived.
0:59.7	"'I've been waiting and waiting,
1:02.2	"'but I guess Calorpis is kind of far from it.
1:06.8	"'Can you poople even get here with your teeny tiny ships?
1:11.6	"'How far has any astronaut traveled?
1:15.6	Listener Ian was wondering the same thing.
1:20.6	So, so far, the farest humans were able to fly from Earth was during the Apollo missions.
1:28.3	My name is Pablo de Leon.
1:30.5	I work with spacesuits, build suits for astronauts.
1:36.1	Right now, I'm in the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota, in the human spaceflight lab.
1:43.7	In the end of the 1960s and beginning of the
1:46.5	1970s, there were a number of human missions to the moon. During the course of those missions,
1:53.2	NASA astronauts were able to get the farthest away from the earth. That is about 400,000
1:59.9	kilometers. So, so far, that's the record, the human record
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