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A very accomplished lady

Pilot/Olympian Iris Cummings Critchell Dies At 104

Iris Cummings Critchell, Olympic swimmer turned pioneering aviator, broke barriers in aviation and mentored future pilots over a 75-year career.

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Join NASA in remembering the crews of Apollo 1, Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-51L), and Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107).

Ad astra fortiter et immola!

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Nor should we forget the original crew of Gemini IX, Elliot See and Charles Bassett, lost in a weather accident in final training ...

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... and Major Michael J. Adams who took an X-15 into space, but didn't return.

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One of the last Tuskegee airman passed last Sunday

https://apnews.com/article/tuskegee-airmen-harry-stewart-jr-78fd504895d7af70d4bb1e2243a54ee6

 

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From the Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituar...ne-dumont-comet-line-nazis-french-resistance/

Andrée "Nadine" Dumon, codename "Nadine", who has died aged 102, was a Belgian courier on the Comet Escape Line, who helped save the lives of dozens of Allied airmen, taking evaders through checkpoints and to the South West of France before they were escorted across the Pyrenees.