Curated playlist
American aviators
- Clint EastwoodPresident Reagan quoted Clint Eastwood's line "Go ahead, make my day" to Congress.
- Fred HaiseFred Haise came within days of becoming the sixth person to walk on the Moon. Then Apollo 13's oxygen tank ruptured.
- Steve McQueenSteve McQueen checked into a small clinic in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in late October 1980 and signed in as Samuel Sheppard. The doctors and staff had no idea who their patient really was. Beyond that clinic, he was one of the best-known…
- Tom CruiseTom Cruise attended fifteen schools in fourteen years. He was born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on the 3rd of July 1962 in Syracuse, New York. Today he is an American actor and film producer, and his career has now run for forty-five years. A…
- John TravoltaJohn Travolta was flying his Gulfstream, registered N728T, on the night of the 24th of November 1992. He was above a solid layer of cloud, descending toward Washington National Airport under instrument flight rules. Then the entire…
- Michael Collins (astronaut)Michael Collins orbited the Moon thirty times and never set foot on it.
- Charles DukeCharles Duke walked on the Moon at 36, and no one younger has ever done it.
- Erik PrinceErik Prince, the founder of the private military contractor Blackwater, once defended his company with a line that has followed him ever since. "No one under our care was ever killed or injured. We kept them safe, all the while we had 30…
- Jimmy BuffettJimmy Buffett's first album, Down to Earth, sold just 324 copies after it appeared in August 1970. Decades later, he had sold over 20 million certified records worldwide. James William Buffett became a singer-songwriter, a bestselling…
- Jessica MeirJessica Meir took part in the first spacewalk done entirely by women. She and Christina Koch replaced a faulty unit.