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.
Quora User. Wolfram|Alpha shows the instantaneous heliocentric velocity to be somewhat faster than this todayâ67741 mph. We are just about as close to the Sun now as it gets. Since our orbit around it is a little eccentric we are traveling faster now (perihelion is about January 3) than most the year.