The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation fighter jet Project Mercury was the first

Project Mercury was the first spaceflight project of the newly created NASA in 1959

Build basic electronic circuits that launch paper airplanes and activate other activities

11"L x 14"W x 4"

Iron-on patch featuring the Fighting 31 and Felix the Cat

Light grey crew socks with the NASA logo

The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation fighter jet Project Mercury was the first"The untold, almost unbelievable, story of the daring pilots who risked their lives in an unprecedented air race in 1919and put American aviation on the map. Years before Charles Lindberghs flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of daredevil pilots, most of them veterans of the World War I, brought aviation to the masses by competing in the sensational transcontinental air race of 1919. The contest awakened Americans to the