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X-15 Flight 90 pilot, Joe Walker Flight 90 of the North American X-15 was a research flight conducted by NASA and the US Air Force on July 19, 1963. It was the first of two X-15 missions that passed the 100-km high Kármán line , the FAI definition of space , along with Flight 91 the next month.
Will Cross on Mt. Everest. William H. Cross is an American mountaineer. He has climbed the highest peaks on all seven continents and walked to both the North and South Poles. He has also led expeditions to 15 unmapped, unexplored mountains in Greenland and also in Patagonia, Mountains of the Moon, the Sahara Desert, and the Thar Desert of India.
On April 27, 1983, John begins his walking journey to the Northern US, supported by his family and the members of Planetwalk. He aims to walk around the world in 18 years. When he reaches Mount Lassen, he decides to talk to his mother over the phone. It is the first time he has spoken in ten years.
The journey north to the Gulf of Carpentaria went smoothly, with recent rains making water easy to find and the Aborigines, contrary to expectations, being peaceful. Around 2 February 1861, the group formed Camp CXIX (Camp 119) on the banks of the Bynoe River , an arm of the Flinders River delta, which Wills had noticed to be salty and tidal.
The KING has been graciously pleased to confer the VICTORIA CROSS in recognition of most conspicuous bravery to:- 905192 Sergeant (Now Warrant Officer) Norman Cyril Jackson R.A.F.V.R., 106 Squadron. This airman was the flight engineer in a Lancaster detailed to attack Schweinfurt on the night of 26th April 1944.
The company’s previous Johnnie Walker Blue Label bottles weigh 850 grams without liquid or the stopper, but this one weighs almost five times less at just 180 grams, Jeremy Lindley, Diageo’s ...
He began his journey on 1 November 1998 and originally expected to finish the over-36,000 miles (58,000 km) trek in eight years, though numerous delays meant it has not yet been completed. Bushby set off from Punta Arenas , Chile , on 1 November 1998, and had completed over 17,000 miles (27,000 km) as of 2006, walking through South, Central ...
James Mangold didn't anticipate that he'd be going down, down, down into a burning ring of fire for a second time in his life.. The filmmaker first tackled the life of Johnny Cash in 2005's Walk ...