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Margaret Heafield Hamilton (born August 17, 1936) Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, Margaret led development of on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. Margaret was responsible for implementing the Apollo on-board guidance software...
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"The Night Witches" or as the Nazi's called them...."Nachthexen" These were the women pilots of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, later as the 46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, of the Soviet Air Forces. The 588th continuously flew harassment...
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February 28th, 1966: A NASA Northrop T-38 Talon crashed at Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri, killing two Project Gemini astronauts, Elliot See and Charles Bassett. See and Bassett flew in one Northrop T-38A Talon jet trainer, tail number NASA...
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February 24, 1989; Flight 811 a Boeing 747–122 (N4713U) operated by United Airlines took off from Honolulu International Airport at 01:52 local time, with 337 passengers and 18 crew members on board. The flight crew consisted of Captain David Cronin,...
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December 20th, 1962, NASA research pilot Milton O. Thompson climbed into a NASA Lockheed JF-104A-10-LO Starfighter, 56-0749, c/n 183-1037, for the purpose of making an X-15 weather evaluation flight. Milton was setting up for a simulated X-15 approach at Rogers...
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