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Speed doesn’t kill you. On May 26, 1969, the Apollo 10 command module clocked an almost unfathomable 39,938 km/h (that’s 11 kilometres per second) during its return to Earth from a round-trip of the Moon. To date, it’s the fastest humans have ever travelled.
A little closer to home, Andy Green broke the sound barrier when he achieved the outright land speed record of 1,228 km/h at the controls of a jet-powered car in 1997.
Both of these achievements make the average top speed of…
