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April 12, 1961 - Poyekhali! (Let's Go!) was heard over the radio as Vostok 1 rocketed away from Baikonur Cosmodrome with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, making him the first human to depart our atmosphere and enter mankind's final frontier....
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Yom HaShoah (יום השואה)—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945 — also known as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Yom HaShoah is observed as Israel's day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who were murdered in the...
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Perhaps the most understated transmissions ever made or received in the history of flight communications...CapCom replied to the crew of Apollo 13, "Roger, we copy you venting." The Apollo 13 mission was commanded by James A. Lovell with John L....
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An F-16 was credited with saving a critically ill patient’s life in northern Norway after the Falcon jet was used to rush specialized medical equipment halfway across the country in an improvised and most effective supersonic delivery platform.A man taken...
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Speedbird 002, G-BSST (002) first flew on 9 April 1969 from Filton to RAF Fairford. While commercial jets took eight hours to fly from New York to Paris, the average supersonic flight time on the transatlantic routes was just under...
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