Without being too much of a pedant - how valid is a world record when completed literally "out of this world."

With an ever increasing number of people heading to places beyond this current world - surely the record books need to be written to create a more sophisticated way of acknowledging human 'records.'

how about relaxing your notions of scope with regards to the term 'world record'. seems a lot easier.

When it's only a couple of hundred miles off the surface, I don't think it really matters. NASA: Barely Going Where Man Has Gone Before.