They travelled around the world, through the Northwest and Northeast Passages, to the Poles, to the bottom of the ocean, through the sound barrier, to the edge of the atmosphere and to the surface of the Moon. They built their craft from papyrus, balsa, cedar, oak, iron, titanium, canvas, carbon fibre and aluminium foil. Their teeth fell out, their joints came apart, their blood boiled, their eardrums burst and their eyeballs came out of their sockets. They made voyages that were thought to be too far, too fast, too dangerous or too expensive – or all of the above. They defied the laws of science, and wrote several new ones. Who were these guys, and who were the shipwrights, designers, scientists and engineers who made their voyages possible?
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