[ He wondered if that meant that he was from a village with no access to that sort of information, but it could also be something else entirely, since somehow the people responsible for bringing them here were from a different world. ]

There's been no official way to have people really travel into space like this—as far as I know, anyway. I'm not counting the space station...or the space probes. The former doesn't involve travel like the way we're supposedly doing right now, and the latter is exploration without people.