What's the Fastest Spacecraft Ever?

Life's Little Mysteries ^ | 6/17/2010 | Denise Chow

[Tench_Coxe]

"The Millenium Falcon used light speed. Enterprise used a faster the light drive."

Both were beat by the Event Horizon, which folded space to travel instantaneously between two points.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

That movie really gives a view of traveling a through a wormhole in a Sci-Fi thriller point of view. Good Movie.

[zeugma]

OK. You’ve answered my question. :-) I just think describing something in terms of something like a piano is silly, given the variation in possible sizes this could represent. Didn’t Schroeder play a piano about a foot long? :-)

[wyokostur]

[MikeD]

Piano sized? Would that be an upright, baby grand, or grand piano?

Grand piano. Check out my profile page for pics.

MD

[MikeD]

While New Horizons is likely to remain the fastest launched spacecraft due to the Atlas 551 launch & relatively small payload, it should be noted that Juno’s orbital velocity around Jupiter will reach ~100,000 mph.