Space & Aviation
Chamberlain's 'Peace in our Time' plane ticket to auction
The plane ticket Neville Chamberlin used to fly to negotiations with Hitler in 1938 is for sale
Today in history... Nixon sets the Space Shuttle program in motion
January 5, 1972 saw the President's last contribution to space exploration before scandals broke
Early plane found in Antarctica
Nearly a century on, the first British Vickers plane is yielded up by the ice
Today in history... Galileo is the first to see Neptune
December 28, 1612: he spots the eighth planet from our Sun... and mistakes it for a star
Today in history... Man's first broadcast from space
December 24, 1968: Apollo 8 transmits the first space footage to stunned TV viewers back home
Today in history... The launch of Soyuz 13
December 18, 1973: after the failure of two space stations, Russia tries its first space science mission