For 300,000 Years, the Farthest Anyone Had Been From Earth Was 0 km

For 300,000 years, the farthest any human had ever been from Earth was zero kilometres. FARTHER tells the story of how that number changed, from the stone circles we built to track the sky, through Galileo, Newton and Jules Verne, to Gagarin, Apollo, and a 53-year silence. It ends with Artemis II, which on 6 April 2026 carried four astronauts 406,771 km from Earth, the farthest humans have ever travelled. Watch the counter in the corner. It only moves when someone goes farther. On 18 November 2026, Voyager 1 becomes the first human-made object one light-day from Earth: 25.9 billion km away. A radio signal will take 24 hours to reach it. 🌕 THE RECORDS IN THIS FILM 327 km: Yuri Gagarin, Vostok 1, 1961 400,171 km: Apollo 13, 1970, set on the rescue route home 406,771 km: Artemis II, 6 April 2026 Source: