Executive Orders are controversial because they allow the President to make major decisions, even law, without the consent of Congress. This, of course, runs against the general logic of the Constitution -- that no one should have power to act unilaterally.
Voyager 1 has since become the fastest and most distant man-made object in the Universe, travelling at around 61,500km/h at a distance of 17.6 billion km from the Earth. Perhaps most incredible of all, NASA is still in communication with it, despite radio signals taking 16 hours to reach it. Image Â© NASA.
Confidence votes 10.0K. It depends how fast you go, but with current technology it would take a very long time. The NASA unmanned probe New Horizons is currently on its way to Pluto and is due to arrive in 2015, after 9 years of travel. And it has one of the highest speeds of any space probe to date.