Seventy years ago, on May 9, 1926, in a decade notable for pioneering aviation exploits, Richard E. Byrd and his pilot-mechanic, Floyd Bennett, won fame as the first to fly an airplane to the North ...
Journalist Eugene Rogers was interviewed in 1998 for the documentary Alone on the Ice. ER: Byrd was very good at raising money for his first expedition. And subsequent expeditions for that matter. His ...
Dennis Rawlins began his career by picking a fight over Pluto. Conventional wisdom held the planet was nearly the size of Earth. But Rawlins’ own calculations showed Pluto was 30 times smaller. “About ...
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