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First Flight
Date: 12.17.1903
Before we could get into space, we had to get off the ground here on Earth. Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright break that barrier on December 17, 1903 with the first controlled flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Image Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum
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