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The man from the moon: Part two

Andrew Frankel has always wondered what it's like to walk on the moon. In the second part of his conversation with astronaut Charlie Duke, he asks exactly that

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The man from the moon: Part one

Only twelve people have ever walked on the moon. Today just four remain. Andrew Frankel interviews Charlie Duke and tries not to ask just the obvious questions…

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Coke bottles and Merlins

Why did Merlin engines built in Detroit fail more often than those made in Crewe? Bizarre as it sounds, the answer came from the canteen. David Twohig explains

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‘More Woodstock than Wacky Races’

Scared to death, plastered in mud and dust, Joana Fidalgo’s been finding just how much fun she can have on two wheels. Plenty, as it turns out

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Miss Shilling’s orifice

A racer of cars and motorcycles, Tilly Shilling was also a brilliant engineer. Joana Fidalgo reveals her most important – and perhaps simplest – contribution to the war effort

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The Caterham of the skies

Judging by some of the Hunter S. Thompson style tales I’ve heard in bars late at night on magazine group tests, I think I joined the orbit of motoring journalism...

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Plane stupid?

The island of Capri looked so beautiful we had to do another lap. The whole Amalfi coast is stunning, particularly so from the cockpit of a light aircraft a mere couple of thousand feet...

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Cheating death

It’s 1am. Two young men stand under an enormous wall of rock, snow and ice. It’s mid-summer but they are at an altitude of around 2100 metres, so it’s bitterly cold...

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