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How did Rutan and Yeager fly the Voyager nonstop around the world?
Burt designed the Voyager in a large H shape, with the main wing in the rear. The wing, at 111 feet, was longer than the wingspan of a 727 passenger airliner.
Burt used light materials made from epoxy and engines that drove the craft 80 miles per hour. While one pilot guided the controls, the other [...]
Who are Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager?
Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager met at an airshow in Chino, California, in the late 1970s. Both of them were experienced pilots.
Rutan had started taking flying lessons when he was 15 and had earned his pilot’s license a year later. He then served as a navigator and fighter pilot in the Air Force during the [...]
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Leave a commentWho was the first American woman in space?
In 1977, a 26-year-old woman named Sally Ride read an announcement that NASA sought young scientists to work on the space shuttle. Ride had graduated from Stanford University in 1972 with a degree in physics and English and was working toward her Ph.D.
Until then, NASA relied on military pilots to staff their space program, but [...]
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Leave a commentWho was the first man to land on the moon and when?
For his next mission, Armstrong was selected to lead Apollo 11, NASA’s first attempt to land on the moon.
For years, the space agency had sent craft deep into space to orbit the moon. This time, they intended to accomplish a feat that human beings had dreamed of for thousands of years, to touch the moon.
On [...]
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Leave a commentWhat was the Space Race and when did it begin?
After World War II ended in 1945, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) competed to become the most powerful nation in the world.
The rivalry extended to many areas, industrial power, military strength, and achievement in the arts and sciences. Space became a vast testing ground, a place where one society [...]
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Leave a commentDoes the Speed of Sound change at all altitudes or does it stay the same?
The speed of sound is known as Mach 1. However, sound can travel through the atmosphere at varying speeds at different places and times, depending on the air pressure and air temperature.
Experiments and calculations in 1986 determined that at freezing temperatures, in dry air, sound travels about 741.1 miles an hour. At around 60 degrees [...]
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Leave a commentWho was James Cook and where was he from?
James Cook was born in Marton, Yorkshire. When he was a teenager, Cook worked in a store in a coastal town, which introduced him to the ocean and ships.
At 18, Cook was apprenticed to a ship owner and learned to sail and navigate in the North Sea. After several years, Cook, longing for more adventure [...]
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Leave a commentHow did James Cook try to explore Antarctica?
Within a year of returning from his first voyage, Cook led another expedition into the South Pacific, this time on a vessel called the Resolution.
Again, Cook plunged into the chilly waters of the southern oceans. In December, Cook wrote, “WL., were stopped by an immense field of ice, to which we could see no end.” [...]
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Leave a commentHow did Captain James Cook die?
Incredibly, Captain James Cook soon grew restless. In July 1776, Cook led two ships, the Resolution and the Discovery, back into the unknown. This time, Cook hoped to find the Holy Grail of explorers, the Northwest Passage through North America.
Cook sailed through the Indian Ocean, around Australia, and in among the islands that were by [...]
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