A Navy honor guard accepts the flags for all five of NASA's shuttles: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour at Johnson Space Centerâs shuttle program celebration on Aug. 27, 2011.
Indonesians are the only people who are shorter than Filipinos in Southeast Asia. Based on the study, Filipino males and Vietnamese males have an average height of 162 centimeters, 2 cm shorter than the average Southeast Asian height of 164 cm. and 2 cm taller than the Indonesian males.
Studies conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics show that the average height of an American man (20-74 years old) has increased from 5'8 to 5'9Â½ in the last forty years. The average body mass index (BMI), has also increased among American adults, from approximately 25 in 1960 to 28 in 2002.