Three of the Douglas World Cruisers that attempted to become the first to circumnavigate the globe by air are shown in an undated 1924 photo. (Wikimedia Commons) If it wasn't the broken engine parts, ...
Four adventurers suited up and embarked on a first-of-a-kind trip to space Monday night, becoming the first humans to fly in polar orbit aboard a SpaceX crew capsule chartered by a Chinese-born ...
On May 9, 1926, two naval aviators, explorer Richard Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett, would claim to accomplish a new feat of ...