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

⏱️ 7 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!

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0:00.0	Today's episode is sponsored by Green Light. Did you know that 27 states don't require a personal
0:06.4	finance course for students even though teens score an average of 64% on the National
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0:20.2	to teach important lessons on financial literacy.
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0:39.6	From the brains behind Brainson. This is the Moment of Am.
0:49.0	Moment of Am comes to you from APM Studios.
0:54.0	I'm Xenon Chimnorpe from the planet Calorbus.
0:58.0	I've gotten to take a couple of tributes to ert on my trusty old spaceship.
1:08.0	She's vintage. I loved learning about human beings eating their human snackies, seeing their human
1:18.3	dwelling pods, a real treaty for me. But I've been waiting and waiting for my whom and friends to come visit me on Calurpose. We have our own snackies. Have you ever had a crowd not smothered in flutzy?
1:36.3	Then you haven't lived. I've been waiting and waiting, but I guess Calorppez is kind of far from Eert.
1:46.6	Can you poople even get here with your teeny tiny ships?
1:51.1	How far has any astronaut traveled?
1:54.0	Listen to Ian was wondering the same thing.
1:58.0	So, so far, the forest humans were able to fly from Earth was during the Apollo missions.
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