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.
Proceeding at three quarters impulse. I should reach it in approximately three minutes.' That is approximately 12,400,000 miles per hour or 5,543 kilometers per second. Â¼ impulse for the shuttle could be estimated at 1,852 km/s. The 'Star Trek Voyager Technical Manual' page 13 has full impulse listed as Â¼ of the speed of light which is 167,000,000 mph or 74,770 km/s. Â¼ impulse for Voyager would be 18,665 km/s. Voyager's Â¼ impulse is 10 times faster than the shuttle's. Therefore, the term Â¼ impulse isn't a fixed speed as much as it's Â¼ of the full speed of the impulse engines' maximum.