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After the end of the war, members of the Associated Glider Clubs of Southern California arranged a lease with the City of San Diego and recreational glider operations resumed. By the 1950s, radio-controlled model sailplanes were flown at the site, with hang gliding becoming popular at the site in the early 1970s, and paragliding at the site ...
Crewed flight with two cosmonauts, first Cuban in space 19 September 10:10 Soyuz-U Plesetsk Site 41/1 Kosmos 1210 (Zenit-6) Low Earth Optical imaging: 3 October: Successful 23 September 10:30 Soyuz-U Plesetsk Site 41/1 Kosmos 1211 (Zenit-4MT) Low Earth Optical imaging: 4 October: Successful 26 September 10:10 Soyuz-U Plesetsk Site 41/1 Kosmos ...
Ridge Soaring Gliderport covered an area of 90 acres (36 ha) at an elevation of 815 feet (248 m) above mean sea level. It had one runway designated 7/25 with a 3,322 x 150 ft (1,013 x 46 m) asphalt and turf surface. [1] For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2006, the airport had 18,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 49 ...
Taras Kiceniuk Jr. (born c. May 14, 1954) is a hang glider pioneer from Southern California. Kiceniuk began building hang gliders in 1971 while still in high school. At first he flew his gliders near Palomar Mountain where his father was curator of Palomar Observatory but later began flying at Torrey Pines Gliderport in La Jolla.
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First space walk/extra-vehicular activity (Alexei Leonov). USSR Voskhod 2: March 1965: First crewed spacecraft to change orbit. USA (NASA) Gemini 3: 14 July 1965: First flyby of Mars (returned pictures). USA (NASA) Mariner 4 [18] 14 July 1965: First photographs of another planet from deep space . USA (NASA) Mariner 4 [18] 26 November 1965
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In 1997, the Colorado State Legislature passed House Bill 1269 that made Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum Colorado's official air and space museum, [1] and the site of the Colorado Aviation Historical Society's Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame. After eight years, the museum's CEO, John Barry, announced his retirement in June 2021. [2]