[Mannaggia l'America]

The fastest plane, SR-71 also known as Blackbird flew at Mach 3+ speed. Mach = speed of sound = 768 miles per hour = 0.213 miles per second. So the maximum speed achieved by a man made object is 0.65 miles per second.

You can see we are a very long way away from speed of light = 186,000 miles per second (compared to 0.65 miles per second by SR-71).

But that is within our atmosphere. The New Horizons spacecraft is traveling 34,000 mph in space. The Apollo 10 has the speed record for a manned spacecraft at 24,791 mph.

[entropy12]

You are correct. But even the 34,000 miles/HOUR spacecraft speed is a far cry from 186,000 miles/SECOND, do you agree?

The crux of the point is that space travel to anything outside of our solar system is a pure pipe dream.

[PIF]

or just under 700 miles per second — getting there!