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The brothers took turns piloting the aircraft at Kitty ... Orville Wright takes to the air at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in the world’s first powered, controlled, sustained flight, on December ...

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Designed in 1906, Glenn Curtiss' first V ... establish the airplane’s place in both commercial and military use. It’s no coincidence that both Curtiss and the Wright brothers began on two ...

Six women boarded Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, marking the first all-female flight since 1963. That flight saw cosmonaut ...

Jay Montgomery, an Atlanta native, has been illustrating professionally for 12 years. His award-winning work is known for its ...

Birth of Lucretia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI. 1506: The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica is ...