Height, depth and spaceWorld record
Greatest distance from the spacecraft during a moonwalk
Record
7,600 m
24,934 ft
- Holder
- Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt
- Year
- Standing since
- 1972 (54 years)
What to remember
On December 12, 1972, during the second moonwalk (EVA-2) of the Apollo 17 mission, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt travelled 7.6 kilometres from their spacecraft. No astronaut has gone further from their spacecraft on the surface of another world.
The distance equals 7,600 m, or 4.7 miles (25,029 feet). Spaceflight firsts follow a long tradition in aviation, and is closely tied to the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.
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- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of spaceflight records” (revision used 1379337360). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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