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007skaty Lord Kelvin believed machines could never replicate biological bird lift, but Orville and Wilbur Wright proved him wrong in Kitty Hawk.
In what year and location did the Wright brothers successfully complete the first controlled, powered airplane flight?
Which famous British physicist and president of the Royal Society famously declared in 1895 that flying machines heavier than air were impossible?
How did Chuck Yeager describe the transition to supersonic flight once he actually crossed the speed of sound?
What was the name of the rocket-powered experimental aircraft that Chuck Yeager piloted to break the sound barrier in 1947?
Moon software: The software for the Apollo 11 computer was physically woven by hand into copper wires by textile workers, a method called 'core rope memory'.
How many times more computing power does a typical modern smartphone have compared to the Apollo 11 guidance computer?
Approximately how much temporary memory (RAM) did the Apollo Guidance Computer have when it navigated the 1969 Moon landing?
Which revolutionary genetic technology allowed scientists to design and test the first COVID-19 vaccines within days of sequencing the virus?