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Testing a spacesuit underwater at the astronautics division of General Dynamics, March 14, 1967. (San Diego Air & Space Museum)

Alicia Framis, Moon Life Foundation, 2010

Sept. 20, 1924: A gliding vehicle sweeps over German hills, one of the many pictorial treasures featured between pages 101 to 111 and 117 to 120 in this issue of The Times. “Germans have again smashed all records for gliding flights,” The Boston Globe reported in 1922, announcing that “two aviation students from Hanover, Heutzen and Martens have demonstrated their ability to remain in the air for an almost unlimited time if weather is favorable.” “A motorless flight of a longer duration than the one I made today is not a question of machine, but of nerves,” Martens told The Times. Photo: The New York Times

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(San Diego Air & Space Museum)

(San Diego Air & Space Museum)

(San Diego Air & Space Museum)

American pilot smiles for a photo taken, probably, by his flying instructor during biplane training flights right before the US joined World War I.

Images: Sian Proctor/NASA HI-SEAS, University of Hawaii

Katherine Stinson

(New York Times)

Inside mission control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, during the Gemini 5 mission, August 1965. (NASA)