What is a barrier but an artificial threshold, just waiting to be crossed? Some barriers exist only in the mind, dissolving at the moment that someone dares to test them.

When Roger Bannister ran a mile in under four minutes in 1954, he shattered not just a record, but a collective belief about human limits.

When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon in 1969, he showed that the word “impossible” can be rewritten as “inevitable.”

And in 1989, when the Berlin Wall crumbled under the hands of ordinary people, a physical barricade that had divided lives and histories gave way to a surge of freedom.

Moments such as these remind us that barriers, be they mental, physical, scientific, or societal, are not endpoints, but invitations to imagine more.

In this issue of The Comet, we tell the story of Asnath Mahapa, who as a little girl, living in a village in Limpopo, looked up to the sky to see a big plane flying overhead.

That image planted a seed of a goal her father told her was impossible. But she persisted, breaking barriers to become the first black commercial woman pilot in South Africa, and eventually starting her own flying school to make the dreams of others come true.

We also look at a quest to shatter a Personal Best in the gruelling sport of trail running, and we meet South Africa's newest rugby stars, the barrier-breaking ISUZU Bulls Daisies.

All this and more in your guide to the world of BrightRock and beyond. Welcome to this issue, and keep watching the skies!