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Who was John Glenn and how did he become the first person to orbit the earth?
When Gagarin orbited Earth, NASA was pressing ahead with its own plans to put men into space.
Two American astronauts, Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom, flew rockets into the atmosphere and returned safely. But none orbited Earth. For that mission, NASA selected John Glenn.
On February 20, 1962, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, Glenn boarded the Friendship 7, [...]
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Leave a commentWho had the “right stuff” and how did they become the first American Astronauts?
In 1959, NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) began an extensive process to select the United States’ first astronauts.
The agency looked for jet pilots with more than 1,500 hours’ flight experience. The astronauts had to be younger than 40 years old, in excellent shape, and shorter than 5′11″, to fit into a small space [...]
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Leave a commentWho was first person into space and when?
On April 12, 1961, a young Russian cosmonaut named Yury Gagarin boarded a capsule atop a giant rocket at Baikonur, the Soviet space center in south-central Kazakhstan.
The rocket blasted off, carrying Gagarin where no human had ever traveled and returned safely from space. In his tiny capsule, called the Swallow, Gagarin soared 200 miles above [...]
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Leave a commentWhen was the The Ninety-Nines association of women aviators created?
In 1929, the greatest female aviators from around the world competed in the eight-day Women’s Air Derby.
On November 2, 1929, the aviators formed an association of women fliers called the Ninety-Nines, named after the number of charter members. Amelia Earhart was the association’s first president.
The Ninety-Nines published The 99-er, a magazine that featured the achievements [...]
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Leave a commentWho was Amelia Earhart and when did she fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
When American Amelia Earhart earned her pilot’s license in 1922, she was one of 22 female pilots in the world.
Determined to prove that women could fly as well as men, she planned to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. On May 20, 1932, she took off in a bright red Lockheed Vega from Newfoundland.
Only two [...]
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Leave a commentWho was Amy Johnson and when did the Air Queen fly solo from England to Australia?
On May 5, 1930, Amy Johnson took off from England on one of the boldest journeys in aviation history. Though she had earned her pilot’s license only a year before, Johnson planned to fly alone from England to Australia.
Her route would take her across Europe, over the Middle East, India, the East Indies, and then [...]
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Leave a commentWho wrote the book “The Catcher In The Rye” and when?
The book “The Catcher in the Rye” was written by J. D. Salinger and published in 1951. The novel has become a classic with over 64 million copies sold to date. Even today, 250 thousand copies are sold each year and it has been translated into all major languages. Walk into any decent bookstore, and [...]
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Leave a commentWhich City In The US Uses The Most Water?
The city of New York Uses The Most Water. Sound like a lot of water, doesn’t it?
In the 1980s, 10 million people used 500 million gallons of water a day. That works out to 50 gallons for every person. That is less than the average for the rest of the U.S.A.
Throughout our country, most people [...]
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3 CommentsWas There Really a Butcher Named A. Stinker?
There certainly was. Ever since names have been around, there have been all sorts of funny ones.
In fact, some are so funny that their owners go to court to get them changed. People change their names because they don’t like the ones they’ve been given by their parents or because there is a name they’d [...]
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Who was Neil Armstrong and when did he become an astronaut?