• Jay Barbree is the only journalist to have covered every manned space flight in the United States, beginning with Alan Shepherd's maiden voyage in 1961?

Facts on topics related to Alan Shepherd

Mike Hailwood

• world motorcycle champion Mike Hailwood won the 1965 Hutchinson 100 Production race at Silverstone on a BSA Lightning Clubman?

Isle of Man TT

• Alec Bennett, riding the CS1 on its first race, won the Isle of Man Senior TT in 1927?
• TT racer Harold Daniell tested the new Norton motorcycle frame in 1950 and declared that it was like "riding on a featherbed" – and it has been called the "Featherbed frame" ever since?
• the current Chairman of the British Motorcycle Charitable Trust is John Kidson, former Isle of Man TT Formula 3 World Champion?