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His father spent US$100,000 ($1.74 million in 2023) to fund Roald Amundsen's 1925 attempt to fly from Svalbard to the North Pole. Amundsen, accompanied by Lincoln Ellsworth, pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen , flight mechanic Karl Feucht , and two other team members, set out in two Dornier Wal flying boats, the N24 and N25, in an attempted to reach ...
Ralph Summers Plaisted [1] (September 30, 1927 – September 8, 2008) was an American explorer who, with his three companions, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean-Luc Bombardier, are regarded by most polar authorities to be the first to succeed in a surface traverse across the ice to the North Pole on April 19, 1968, making the first confirmed surface conquest of the Pole.
Louise Arner Boyd (September 16, 1887 – September 14, 1972) was an American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic, who wrote extensively of her scientific expeditions.She became the first woman to fly over the North Pole in 1955, after privately chartering a DC-4 and crew that included aviation pioneers Thor Solberg and Paul Mlinar.
Due to axial precession, the lunar pole describes a small circle on the celestial sphere every 18.6 years. e.g. Moore, Patrick (1983), The Guinness Book of Astronomy Facts & Feats, p. 29, In 1968 the north pole star of the Moon was Omega Draconis; by 1977 it was 36 Draconis. The south pole star is Delta Doradus. Mars
First to parachute onto North Pole: Vitaly Volovich and Andrei Medvedev (Soviet Union) [7] on May 9, 1949, [8] [9] from Douglas C-47 Skytrain, registered CCCP H-369. [10] First vessel to reach North Pole: the submarine USS Nautilus. August 3, 1958; First to reach North Pole by surface travel (on Ski-Doo): Ralph Plaisted. April 19, 1968
The Indestructibles (Ancient Egyptian: j.ḫmw-sk – literally "the ones not knowing destruction" [1] [2]) was the name given by ancient Egyptian astronomers to two bright stars which, at that time, could always be seen circling the North Pole. [3]
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 5 of “Barry,” now streaming on HBO Max. Last week’s episode of “Barry” ended on one of the show’s most bizarre ...
Alpha Cephei (α Cephei, abbreviated Alpha Cep, α Cep), officially named Alderamin / æ l ˈ d ɛr ə m ɪ n /, [10] [11] is a second magnitude star in the constellation of Cepheus near the northern pole. The star is relatively close to Earth at 49 light years (ly) and drifting closer with a heliocentric radial velocity of about −16 km/s.