That remains the record altitude for a laser-driven rocket.
Also, it doesn't record altitude, so if you are in a multistory lot you could end up in the right row on the wrong level.
They docked with an Agena target on the first orbit and were propelled together to a record altitude of 850 miles (about 1,370 km).
Albert W. Stevens and Orvil A. Anderson, of the Army Air Corps, piloted the world's largest balloon to a record altitude of 72,395 feet, or 13.71 miles, conversing easily with the earth by radio throughout the journey.
After a rendezvous with an Agena target vehicle, the two men used the Agena's engines to propel them to a record altitude of 764 km (475 miles), where Collins left the spacecraft to remove equipment needed for a micrometeorite experiment from the aft end of the Gemini and attempted unsuccessfully to attach similar equipment to the Agena.
More recently, the company's solar cells boosted NASA's solar plane Helios to 30,000 meters--a record altitude for any non-rocket-powered craft, according to Swanson.
Unofficially known (but still not well-known) as the Blackbird, the SR-71 flew at record altitude--90,000 feet--and speed--2,193.2 miles per hour.
While the device records altitude above sea level, they said, its accuracy is not sufficient to be of much use in determining whether the jet was flying below minimum approved levels.
To characterise the habitat, the following categorical variables of 35 Radix populations (Table 1) visited during sampling were recorded: altitude class (below/above 1000 m), current (stagnant/slow/fast), depth (less/more than 1 m), permanency (ephemeral/permanent), macrophytes (present/absent) and sediment size (mud/sand/hard).
His final ride at the kilometre distance was on May 12 , 2007 in La Paz, Bolivia, where he tackled the absolute world record at altitude (58.85 sec) set in 2001 by Frenchman Arnaud Tournant on the same track.
