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Caterpillar Club Collection The Caterpillar Club originated in October 1922 at Wright Field, Ohio, when a suggestion was made to start a club composed only of persons whose lives were saved by the use of the parachute when forced to leave an aircraft in flight. The name comes from the fact that parachutes were made from silk, produced from the caterpillar cocoon. By 1940 there were some 700 members of the Caterpillar Club, including such noteworthy members as Charles Lindbergh Identifier

daily dose of trivia for all the history buffs out there. So sit back and take a ride to all the fascinating things that happened today! People are trapped in history and history is trapped in people, and hence, every day has been a significant one in the foibles of History. Let’s take a tour of “This Day in History – 13th of May”. 1777 University library at Vienna opens - Advertisement - It was only during the reign of Empress Maria Theresia, on this day in History, that the university library was reopened; its holdings consisted largely of the books from the dissolved Jesuit monast...

Type keyword(s) to search "I Lived With the Astronauts": PM at the Beginning of U.S. Spaceflight In December 1959, Popular Mechanics spent a week with the Mercury 7 astronauts and witnessed the beginning of U.S. human spaceflight. By Joseph N. Bell CorbisGetty Images On this day 60 years ago, Alan Shepard packed into the cramped Freedom 7 capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket and blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The NASA astronaut climbed to an altitude of 116 miles above Earth's surface and became the first American to reach space. His flight lasted just 15 minutes, but it ...

In the early months of modern Ufology, a pair of Air National Guard F-51 Mustangs engaged UFOs in two separate incidents that became known as “The Mantell Incident” and “The Gorman Dogfight”. Tragically, one of these turned deadly.

NASA Dubs 39-Second Mars Drone Chopper Flight its 'Wright Brothers Moment' © REUTERS / NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU 1 Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202104191082674623-nasa-dubs-39-second-mars-drone-chopper-flight-its-wright-brothers-moment/ The challenge of the first flight on Mars was to generate enough lift in its sparse atmosphere, equivalent to flying 22 miles (35 km) above sea level on Earth. But the Red Planet's weaker gravity, just over a third of ours, makes things easier. NASA scientists have described the first f...