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18 March 1965. Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes and became the first man to perform an EVA.
9 March 1986. US Navy divers located the wreckage of Space Shuttle Challenger's crew compartment and the remains of all seven astronauts.
15 February 1996. At the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China, a Long March 3B rocket, carrying Intelsat 708, crashed into a rural town after lift-off, resulting in a significant but unconfirmed number of casualties.
10 February 1935. First flight of the Fauvel AV-10, French twin seat side by side flying wing light tourer aircraft prototype, first flying wing to attain a French Certificate of Navigability.
6 January 1938. Junkers Ju 90 V1, D-AALU, "Der Grosse Dessauer", a combination of wings, engines, undercarriage and tail assembly of Junkers Ju 89 V3, Werknummer 4913, mated to a new transport fuselage, broke up in flight while undergoing flutter tests out of Dessau, Germany.
30 January 1915. First flight of the Gotha G.I, a German 3 seat heavy bomber biplane.
27 January 1953. First flight of the Hurel-Dubois HD-31 (F-WFKU, later F-BFKU). French twin-engine high-wing braced monoplane of metal construction. Cargo and passenger aeroplane powered by 800 hp Wright 957C7BA1 Cyclone radial engines.
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31 December 1917. R.F.C. Captains Henry Michael Moody (left) and Raymond James Brownell photographed after shooting down German ace Alwin Thurm.
12 December 1953. Chuck Yeager’s X1-A tumbled about all three axis as it fell more than 40,000 feet before recovering level flight.