Multimedia Gallery
- Media Type: Photograph
Ranger 3 lunar probe, launched January 26, 1962.
The Fokker C-2 America with the engines running on a specially built takeoff hill on Roosevelt Field before Richard Byrd's transatlantic attempt.
Distance flier and polar explorer
The view from the rim of Bonneville Crater on Mars.
A corn and soybean farmer from Rippey, Iowa.
Farmer Roy Bardole, seated in his office, views an agricultural GPS image on his computer monitor while field maps are laid out on his desk.
Farmer Roy Bardole seated at the controls of his combine in a cornfield on farm in Iowa. A GPS guidance system display is mounted at the top center on right side of cab.
Ruth Elder was an aviatrix of the 1920s and 1930s who attempted a transatlantic flight with George Haldeman in 1927.
Ruth Elder and her co-pilot/instructor George Haldeman arrive in Lisbon, Portugal on October 25, 1927 aboard the steamer SS Lima, which brought them from Horta in the Azores. She holds flowers that were dropped to the ship by airplane in celebration of her arrival. In spite of her traumatic ditching and rescue, including the fiery loss of her airplane, Elder was determined to reach her original destination of Paris.