The Wright brothers made the first powered flight in 1903 and Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in 1969, close enough together that a single person could have witnessed both within one lifetime
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In just 66 years, humanity went from the first motorized flight of the Wright brothers to the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon. This short interval, within a single human life, illustrates the speed and depth of the technological transformations of the twentieth century, especially in transport and communication. Why the first motorized flight is historically... The post From the first motorized flight of the Wright brothers in 1903 to the landi…
The Wright brothers made the first powered flight in 1903 and Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in 1969, close enough together that a single person could have witnessed both within one lifetime
On 17 December 1903, the Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled flight by a heavier-than-air machine. On 20 July 1969, two astronauts walked on the Moon. Those two events are about 66 years apart, close enough together that a single person could have lived to witness both. That is not a rounding trick. A normal human lifetime comfortably spans the distance from the first hop off a sand dune to footprints on another world. Two feats, …
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