Category: History
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60 YEARS OF HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT
This spring we celebrate 60 years of human spaceflight — with the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic first spaceflight earlier this month and the 60th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first American in space next week. We’ve come a long way since those first few trips to space. Our monthly theme for April…
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Dornier Do X
Designed by Dr. Claudius Dornier, the Dornier Do-X was the largest and heaviest flying boat in the world upon its completion in 1929, with a wingspan of 157 feet and a maximum take-off weight of more than 61 tons. As the Treaty of Versailles forbade Germany from building certain classes of aircraft, the enormous aircraft…
