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Fay Wells with the Winnie Ma
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Fay Wells with the Winnie Mae |
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Fay Gillis Wells, writer, broadcaster, foreign correspondent, sailor, designer of boat interiors and noted aviatrix, stands in the National Air and Space Museum beside the Winnie Mae. This is the plane in which Wiley Post made his record-breaking global flight in 1933. Fay Wells participated in Posts achievement by managing the fuel dumps for the Winnie Mae in Siberia and by providing Wiley Post with the maps and navigation data. These services contributed to the success of the flight by which Post broke his own global record of 1931. Invited by Wiley Post to fly with him on a global mission in 1935, she decided instead to cover the Italian-Ethiopian War with her journalist husband, Linton Wells. Thus, Will Rogers was invited by Post as her replacement and went with him on the ill- fated journey that ended in an air crash fatal to both men. One of the founders of the Ninety-Nines, an association of licensed women pilots (named for the number of charter members) established in 1929, Fay Wells later became the organizations Bicentennial program chairman. In that capacity, she initiated the founding of the International Forest of Friendship in Atchison, Kansas, hometown of Amelia Earhart, the first president of the Ninety-Nines. The forest was established to honor aviation and space and those who pioneered in air and space flight. In the forest are plantings from tree seeds flown in lunar orbit during NASAs Apollo 14 mission to the Moon by astronaut Stuart Roosa. Apollo 17 astronaut Ron Evans planted the "Moon tree" seedlings at the dedication ceremony in Atchison on July 24,1986 (Amelia Earharts birthday). |
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1976 |
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Apollo 14 on the Moon
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Apollo 14 on the Moon |
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The jewel-like glare from a brilliant sun reflects off the lunar module of the Apollo 14 [ http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~cjhamil/SolarSystem/apo14.htm ] mission to the Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950903.html ] as it rests on the lunar surface in February 1971. Astronauts Alan Shepard [ http://tigger.uic.edu/~jph/abs.htm ] and Edgar Mitchell walked on the Moon's surface [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950922.html ] while astronaut Stuart Roosa piloted the orbiting command module. Coming only months after the abortive Apollo 13 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950707.html ] mission, Apollo 14 [ http://ees5-www.lanl.gov/APOLLO/ ] was famous for long exploratory moon walks, collecting samples of lunar bedrock from Cone Crater, deploying the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, and hitting golf balls [ http://ees5-www.lanl.gov/APOLLO/a14.clsout2.html ]. The slope rising to the rim of Cone Crater is visible at the left edge of the photo. |
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa's family recently was presented with the NASA Ambassador of Exploration Award, recognizing the sacrifices and dedication of the Apollo, Gemini and Mercury astronauts. Attending the ceremony, seen here (from left), are James Kennedy, director, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Jeffrey Jezierski (J. T.), White House liaison, NASA, Daniel Gruenbaum, general manager of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, and Roosa's family, his son Col. Christopher Roosa, USMC, his widow Joan Roosa, (in wheelchair), his daughter Rosemary Roosa, and daughter-in-law Whitney and his son Allen Roosa. Each of the honored astronauts or their surviving families was presented with a lunar sample, part of the 842 pounds of moon rocks and soil returned during the six lunar expeditions from 1969 to 1972. Roosa's family chose to display the award that featured a small piece of the moon at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Fla. |
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02/18/2006 |
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