From the depths of the Mariana Trench to the rigours of space, Hamish Harding, the British adventurer, is no stranger to traversing boundaries.
fifth human spaceflight mission, making him one of a handful of tourists to have crossed the Karman line marking the beginning of space.
Four years later, Harding returned with his son Giles, who at the age of 12 became the youngest person to reach the South Pole. Vescovo also travelled with Harding on the Blue Origin flight, making them the first crew to visit both Challenger Deep and space.During Harding’s record-breaking circumnavigation of the globe, the air temperature plunged to -83 degrees, just three degrees above the aircraft’s tolerance limit, forcing the crew to drop 5000 feet to avoid catastrophic cold damage.
“I’m ecstatic,” he said at the time. “We pushed the boundaries of aeronautics and the aircraft handled it flawlessly.”
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