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.
On the distaff side, Filipino females have an average height of 150 cm. a humble 3 cm. advantage over Indonesian females but also 3 cm shorter than the Southeast Asian average.
As it turns out, the answer is remarkably un-dramatic. Currently, the average height of men worldwide measures in at 5 feet, 9 inches. Turn the clock back 1000 years and the average height then wasâ¦ [suspenseful organ sound] â¦5 feet, 8 inches. So in the last 1000 years weâve grown an inch? Not quite. In around the 1600âs when our health and sanitation hadnât yet caught up to the size of growing cities, human height was averaging 5 feet, 5 inches.