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James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft.
TIL about Andrew Carnegie, the original billionaire who spent 90% of his fortune creating over 3000 libraries worldwide because a free library was how he gained the education to become wealthy ...
Video recorded by bystanders appears to show the harrowing moment when the two aircraft crashed into one another, causing a fiery explosion over the nation's capital. Watch it above.
Charles Edward Jones was born November 8, 1952, in Clinton, Indiana.He graduated from Wichita East High School in 1970, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Astronautical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1974, and received a Master of Science degree in Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.
The Wednesday collision was the deadliest plane crash since November 2001, when an American Airlines jet crashed in Charlotte, N.C., after takeoff. The cause of the Wednesday collision is unknown.
Jared Taylor Isaacman (born February 11, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, pilot, philanthropist, and commercial astronaut. He was nominated by President Donald Trump in January 2025 to serve as the next administrator of NASA. [3]
There were 64 people on the American Airlines jet and three soldiers in the U.S. Army helicopter at the time of the Jan. 29 midair collision ... nearly 3,000 people died in the Sept. 11 attacks ...
Richard Douglas Husband (July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003) was an American astronaut and fighter pilot. He traveled into space twice: as pilot of STS-96 and commander of STS-107 . Husband and the rest of the crew of STS-107 were killed when Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere .