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Made a closest approach of 1,950 kilometres (1,210 mi) on 18 September, and circled the Moon before returning to Earth. Landed in the Indian Ocean on 21 September at 16:08 UTC, becoming the first Lunar spacecraft to be recovered successfully and carried the first Earth life to travel to and around the Moon. [64] 63: Zond 6 (7K-L1 No.12L) Zond 6
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running.These are the current world records in various five-year-groups, maintained by WMA, the World Association of Masters Athletes, which is designated by the World Athletics (formerly IAAF) to conduct the worldwide sport of Masters ...
The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is an American twin-engine all-weather stealth fighter aircraft developed and produced for the United States Air Force (USAF). As a product of the USAF's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program the aircraft was designed as an air superiority fighter, but also incorporates ground attack, electronic warfare ...
The initial flight was flown by the USAF 62nd Airlift Wing. [68] The C-17s fly round trip between Christchurch Airport and McMurdo Station around October each year and take 5 hours to fly each way. [69] In 2006, the C-17 flew its first Antarctic airdrop mission, delivering 70,000 pounds of supplies. [70] Further air drops occurred during ...
Since the 1955 record, where France recorded a world record of speed of 331 km/h, France has nearly continuously held the absolute world speed record. The latest record is held by a TGV POS trainset, which reached 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph) in 2007, on the newly constructed LGV Est high-speed line. This run was for proof of concept and engineering ...
The following are the lists of the world's busiest flight routes based on the number of scheduled flights in both directions. Note that these statistics do not consider the number of passengers carried.
TWA Flight 840(April 2, 1986) – Bombed on the way to Athens, Greece, sucking out 4 on board – the plane landed safely. Olympic Aviation Flight 545(August 3, 1989) – A Shorts330-200 (SX-BGE) crashed on Kerkis mountain coming from Thessalonikitowards airport Pythagoras in Samos. All 31 passengers and crew of 3 died.
In this chart, the "0" value is the average temperature from 1850 to 1900, which is considered the pre-industrial temperature level. The instrumental temperature record is a record of temperatures within Earth's climate based on direct measurement of air temperature and ocean temperature. Instrumental temperature records do not use indirect ...