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On Monday, June 28, 1965, Clipper Friendship, a Boeing 707-321B operated as Pan American Airlines Flight 843 departed from San Francisco International Airport carrying 143 passengers and 10 crew members on a scheduled flight from San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii....
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As a young ROTC cadet in 1948, Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr. got to meet test pilot Chuck Yeager and even sat in the cockpit of the Bell X-1. This inspired the young cadet to reach for higher... July 26, 1958,...
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July 16th, 1945, "The Gadget" was detonated. Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, as a result of the Manhattan Project. The new test...
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General Joe Henry Engle, USAF pilot, aeronautical engineer, X-15 Test Pilot, NASA astronaut, and commander of two Space Shuttle missions Engle was born on August 26, 1932, in Chapman, Kansas, and in his youth, he was active as a...
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One moment, etched in the annals of spaceflight lore is the tale of Gus Grissom, John Young, and the infamous Gemini 3 corned beef sandwich.In the early days of manned space missions, starting with Project Mercury, the very first human...
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