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Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, as the daughter of Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart (1867–1930) and Amelia "Amy" (née Otis; 1869–1962). [9] Amelia was born in the home of her maternal grandfather Alfred Gideon Otis (1827–1912), who was a former judge in Kansas, the president of Atchison Savings Bank, and ...
In this episode, Voyager 's crew discovers a group of humans—including Amelia Earhart (Sharon Lawrence)—who were abducted from Earth in 1937. [3] Lawrence was cast as Amelia Earhart after she had previously worked with Voyager 's casting director on NYPD Blue. The episode shows the first time that a Federation starship lands on a planet's ...
In 2014, Coleman was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. [49] On January 25, 2015, Orlando renamed West Washington Street to recognize the street's most accomplished resident. [27] On January 26, 2017, [50] the 125th anniversary of her birth, a Google Doodle was posted in her honor. [51]
By 8:17 a.m., 19 passengers, including Amelia Earhart, took off aboard the aircraft bound for Oklahoma, the next step on the transcontinental journey. At the time, the average price for a one-way ...
Amelia Earhart is photographed with her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, the aircraft she used in her attempted flight around the world. Earhart and the plane went missing on July 2, 1937.
On May 21, 1932, Amelia Earhart set out to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger four years prior.
In 1907, when Amelia Earhart is nine years old, growing up on a Kansas farm, she is an intelligent and precocious child. She builds a play aircraft with her sister "Pidge." Later, as America enters World War I in 1917, Amelia, now a college student working in a doctor's office, decides to join the war effort and become a nurse. One night on the ...
Amelia Earhart's Daughters: the Wild and Glorious Story of American Women Aviators from World War II to the Dawn of the Space Age, by Leslie Haynsworth and David Toomey; Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program by Margaret A. Weitekamp; The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight by ...