The definition of disability under Social Security is different than other programs. Social Security pays only for total disability. No benefits are payable for partial disability or for short-term disability. We consider you disabled under Social Security rules if: You cannot do work that you did before;
UCSB Science Line. A rocket ship, on its way to the moon, can get up to almost 25,000 miles per hour in order to escape the Earths atmosphere. However, it does not go that fast the whole way. Also, the ship cannot fly directly from the Earth straight to the moon surface.
Astronauts are by far the fastest traveling humans with the earth as a stationary reference point. One might think the Apollo missions to the moon are the fastest traveling humans, but the speed of that spacecraft was only about 6,300 miles per hour. In fact, an orbiting space shuttle is much faster at 17,600 miles per hour. This is the fastest any man has reached. Although it seems very fast to us, this speed is 0.026% of the speed of light. For unassisted speed using Usain Bolt's time in the 100 meter, his top speed is 23.3 miles per hour (10.4 m/s).