 Soichiro
Honda began manufacturing
piston rings in 1936. He began
manufacturing motorcycles in 1948, and by
1952 Honda accounted for 70% of Japan's
motorcycle production. He began
manufacturing automobiles in the early
1960's, and Honda race cars were winning
races by 1965. |
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 Alberto
Santos-Dumont claimed a
record for making the first dirigible
flight around the Eiffel Tower in 1901.
He made his first heavier-than-air flight
in 1906, and in so doing became the first
man to fly a heavier-than-air craft in
Europe. In 1909 he developed what is now
considered the world's first ultralight
aircraft, the plans for which he offered
to the public free of charge. |
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 The Saturn
Rocket evolved from the idea
of clustering a number of Jupiter engines
around Redstone and Jupiter propellant
tanks to build a large launch vehicle.
The first Saturn rocket was used to lift
an Apollo capsule into low orbit on
October 27, 1961. A total of 32 Saturns
were launched during the course of the
program, without a single failure. |
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 Luna
was the name of a series of lunar probes
launched by the Soviet Union between 1959
and 1976. They were the
first man-made objects to attain escape
velocity, to impact on the moon, to
photograph the "dark side" of
the Moon, to soft-land on the moon, to
retrieve lunar samples and return them to
Earth, and to deploy a rover on the
Moon's surface. |
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