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Rick, a young senior at Amarillo High School in Texas was as happy as could be when he finally had enough money to buy himself his first car. Not just any car, but a shiny brand spanking new 1975 Chevrolet...
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Dressed in his usual office attire, which we mere mortals might recognize as a space suit, SR-71 pilot Brian Shul deftly coaxed the throttles forward... the titanium hinge in his left pinkie performing as the surgeons had promised 12 years...
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May 31st 1967; In the midst of the Viet Nam war, a lone KC-135 tanker was on a Young Tiger mission over the Gulf of Tonkin. The four engined Kerosene carrier tanker aircraft commanded by Maj. John H. Castle was...
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May 18th, 1969, Apollo 10 launched away from Kennedy Space Center, crewed by: Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan on the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program. A literal "dress rehearsal" for...
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August 16th 1905, Little Mariya Oktyabrskaya was born into a poor Ukrainian family on the Crimean Peninsula. Mariya, one of ten children, once old enough, tried to help support her family by working in a cannery, and then as a...
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