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“Paraglider”

Armstrong and Thompson's Flying Tricycle
Aug 30, 2012 02:30 PM ET // Amy Shira Teitel
In 1961, test pilots Neil Armstrong and Milton Thompson built their own research aircraft.
NASA's Amazing Gliding Gemini Capsules
Aug 23, 2012 06:58 PM ET // Amy Shira Teitel
In August 1964, a winged Gemini spacecraft crashed into the dry lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base.
NASA's First Quest for a Reusable Rocket
Oct 22, 2012 08:02 AM ET // Amy Shira Teitel
Private companies like SpaceX are trying to land a spent rocket stage vertically at the launch site, just like NASA tried to do with a paraglider on its Saturn rocket in the 1960s.
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The Must Reads
Massive Asteroid to Make 'Royal' Flyby
What's It Really Like to Be a Spy?
Dust Devils Rip Up Mars' 'Etch A Sketch' Surface
Opportunity Breaks NASA's 40-Year Roving Record
When (Part of) Apollo 13 Reached the Moon
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The Mind Blowers
Australian Politician Attacked by Kangaroo
Victorian Era Brits Were Smarter Than Us
Swirling Waters Seen From Space
Word Bubbles
Big Bang 'Blood Spatter' Produced by Atom-Smasher
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UK to Send First Astronaut to Space Station
The Big Number
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The Big Number
-- Million: The value of jewels stolen from the hotel room of a Swiss luxury watchmaker and jeweller at the Cannes film festival
Big Quote
"I don't ever want to lose my kids."
-- Melissa Torrez who hopped in her car and gave chase after a man who had grabbed her 4-year-old daughter from her family's yard. The suspect was caught and charged with attempted kidnapping
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