This is the issue that flies high, dreams wide and floats upside down. Yes, it's The Space Issue, in which we cooked our own rocket fuel, interviewed NASA's spacesuit designer and doodled many, many aliens.

Interviews: Noah Baumbach, Bompas & Parr, Amy Ross, Eleanor Friedberger.

Words: Liz Ann Bennett, Benjamin Brill, Maggie Crow, Beth Davis, Rosanna Durham, Linnéa Enstrom, Anna Godfrey, Fab Gorjian, Harriet Hall, Lee Hunter, Frances Phillips, Jason Ward, Olivia Wilson.

Illustration: Hannah Bowen, Alice Ferrow, Jon Lau, Laura Manfre, Marina Muun, Sofia Niazi, Christine Rösch.

Pictures: Francesca Jane Allen, Carl Bigmore, Jamie Campbell, Jo Duck, Julia Galdo, Anthony Gerace, Eugene Gusarov, Kris Hatch, Emelie Hultqvist, I-hsien Lai, Andy Lo Pò, Tess Roby, Tom Ravenshear, Robin Scheibler, Liz Seabrook, Romain Sellier, Stelios Stylianou, David Swailes, Beinta á Torkilsheyggi, Sara Wilson, Yiu Yu Hoi.