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41Jeannette Piccard — Jeannette Ridlon Piccard (January 5, 1895 ndash; May 17, 1981) was an American teacher, scientist, priest, and aeronaut who was a pioneer of balloon flight. A member of the famed Piccard family of balloonists and of the International Space Hall… …
422010 Northern Hemisphere summer — The 2010 Northern Hemisphere summer included severe heat waves that impacted most of the United States, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Hong Kong, North Africa and the European continent as a whole, along with parts of Canada, Russia …
431910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field — A promotional poster for the meet The Los Angeles International Air Meet (January 10 to January 20, 1910) was among the earliest airshows in the world and the first major airshow in the United States.[1] It was held in Los Angeles County,… …
44Joseph Kittinger — Joseph W. Kittinger II Joseph W. Kittinger II Nickname Red …
45Mackay Trophy — The Mackay Trophy on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. The Mackay Trophy was established on 27 January 1911 by Clarence Hungerford Mackay, who was then head of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company and the Commercial… …
46Hot air ballooning — is the activity of flying hot air balloons. Attractive aspects of ballooning include the exceptional quiet (except when the propane burners are firing), the lack of a feeling of movement, and the bird s eye view. Since the balloon moves with the… …
47Water rocket — A water rocket is a type of model rocket using water as its reaction mass. The pressure vessel mdash;the engine of the rocket mdash;is usually a used plastic soft drink bottle. The water is forced out by a pressurized gas, typically compressed… …
48Viking rocket — The Viking rocket series of sounding rockets were designed and built by the Glenn L. Martin Company (now Lockheed Martin) under the direction of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). A total of twelve Viking rockets flew from 1949 to 1955 [… …
49Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk — RQ 4/MQ 4 Global Hawk Role Surveillance UAV National origin …
50Astronaut — For other uses, see Astronaut (disambiguation). Cosmonaut redirects here. For other uses, see Cosmonaut (disambiguation). Astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a Manned Maneuvering Unit outside the United States Space Shuttle Challenger in 1984. An …
