| Altitude |
Object |
| 238,794 miles |
The Moon the view from here |
| 22,300 miles |
Clarke Belt, stationary communication, broadcast satellites |
| 6,000-12,000 miles |
Global positioning satellites |
| 3,000-6,000 miles |
Science satellites |
| 600-1,200 miles |
Spysats |
| 300-600 miles |
Weather satellites, photography satellites |
| 250-435 miles |
Exosphere of Earth's atmosphere |
| 250-50,000 miles |
Early-warning satellites, Molniya communication satellites |
| 200-250 miles |
International Space Station |
| 115-400 miles |
Space Shuttles |
| 100-300 miles |
Navigation satellites, hamsats |
| 62 miles |
SPACE starts here at 100 kilometers the view from here |
| 50 miles |
NASA awards astronaut status for flights above 50 miles |
| 30-50 miles |
Mesosphere of Earth's atmosphere |
| 11-30 miles |
Stratosphere of Earth's atmosphere, including the ozone layer |
| 65,000 feet |
Hot air balloon altitude record |
| 63,360 feet |
Twelve miles high |
| 60,000 feet |
Tops of highest cumulonimbus thunderhead clouds |
| 6-11 miles |
Troposphere of Earth's atmosphere, including weather we feel on the surface |
| 58,080 feet |
Eleven miles high |
| 55,000 feet |
Concorde jet aircraft |
| 54,000 feet |
Oxygen only one percent of that at sea level |
| 52,800 feet |
Ten miles high |
| 36,000 feet |
Oxygen only ten percent of that at sea level |
| 36,000 feet |
Commercial airliners |
| 29,028 feet |
Mt. Everest highest mountain |
| 29,000 feet |
Bar-headed geese cross Himalayas from India to central Asia |
| 26,400 feet |
Five miles high |
| 21,120 feet |
Four miles high |
| 21,000 feet |
Commercial airliner struck mallard duck over Nevada desert |
| 20,000 feet |
Cirrocumulus and cirrus high cloud bases above here |
| 20,000 feet |
Altocumulus and altostratus middle cloud bases below here |
| 20,000 feet |
Some songbirds and shorebirds migration |
| 20,032 feet |
Mt. McKinley highest North American mountain |
| 20,000-40,000 feet |
Jet stream of upper-altitude high-speed winds |
| 15,840 feet |
Three miles high |
| 18,000 feet |
Oxygen only fifty percent of that at sea level |
| 11,000 feet |
Monarch butterfly migration |
| 10,594 feet |
Monarch Butterfly sanctuary in Mexico |
| 10,560 feet |
Two miles high |
| 10,000 feet |
Above 99 percent of bird migration |
| 10,000 feet |
Bald eagles |
| 6,500 feet |
Cumulus, stratus and stratocumulus low cloud bases below here |
| 6,500 feet |
Top of daytime boundary layer, lowest of troposphere's two layers |
| 5,280 feet |
One mile high |
| 5,000 feet |
Only ten percent of bird migration above here |
| 5,000-6,000 feet |
Typical North American thermals |
| 2,000-4,000 feet |
Most songbird migration |
| 2,000 feet |
Typical hot air balloon flight |
| 2,000 feet |
Two-thirds of all bird-aircraft collisions below here |
| 1,483 feet |
Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, tallest building |
| 1,450 feet |
Sears Tower, Chicago, Illinois, second tallest building |
| 1,380 feet |
Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai, China |
| 1,368 feet |
World Trade Center twin towers, New York, before 9/11/01 |
| 1,283 feet |
Citic Plaza, Guangzhou, China |
| 1,260 feet |
Shun Hing Square, Shenzhen, China |
| 1,250 feet |
Empire State Building, New York City, United States the view from here |
| 600-900 feet |
Top of nighttime boundary layer, lowest of troposphere's two layers |
| 500 feet |
Most birds fly below here, except during migration |
| 367 feet |
Tallest living tree |
| 347 feet |
Space shuttle launch pad tower structure |
| 155 feet |
Atlas-5 rocket, Delta-4 rocket, erect on launch pad |
| 151 feet |
Statue of Liberty |
| 4-7 feet |
Human beings |
| 0 feet |
Fog, a low stratus cloud with base on the ground |
| 0 feet |
Surface of Earth – Sea Level the view from here |
| –3963 miles |
Center of Earth from surface |
