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It was the named the Glamorous Glennis. It was named by the pilot, Captain Chuck Yeager, after his wife. The aircraft was the Bell experimental X-1, in which Yeager broke the speed of sound on October 14, 1947.

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The stone fly is believed to be the ancestor of flying insects.

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Columbia was the first space shuttle to fly in space and return. Before that the test vehicle

Enterprise was used for trial landings, although it was never capable of entering space.

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