Related Clues:

• RAF accepts new vehicle going well beyond its normal range
• Challenger was one small step closer, almost catching learner
• Gathering of academics behind restricting speed in Mars lander?
• Orbital vehicle
• Speed and skill needed on pole with this vehicle
• Tempi in start of sea shanty let loose in long-distance vessel
• PC with fast car that's modified with head of engineering -- it goes like a rocket
• Former long-distance traveller's small step closer, almost crossing line
• Place to make rocket?
• Challenger perhaps accepts fair blows if one's knocked out
• Rate expertise used on second capsule
• Discovery, say, of room service making regular trips
• Recaps fact: alien arrived in this?
• Rocket, for example, RAF accepts must be redesigned
• Art room first to show heavenly vehicle