622.085 kilometres is what Guinness World Records certifies as the greatest vertical extent travelled by any individual within Earth’s exosphere. Guinness worked it out for Kathryn Sullivan by taking the apogee of the shuttle... Read More →
On August 2, 1971, in the last minutes of Apollo 15’s final moonwalk, David Scott drove the lunar rover a short way from the lander, set down a small aluminum figurine and a plaque... Read More →
On February 20, 1947, a captured German V-2 rose from the New Mexico desert carrying the first travellers ever sent beyond the atmosphere: a small container of fruit flies. They rode to about 109... Read More →
Everyone who has ever walked on another world did it while Richard Nixon was in the White House. The first bootprints went into the Sea of Tranquility in the summer of 1969; by the... Read More →
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