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Concorde prototype @ Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS

TU-144LL @ NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA-DFRC)

Ramjet model @ NASA/GRC

SkyIon cutaway @ Reaction Engines

Goddard and rocket at Roswell @ Bettmann/CORBIS

V-2 missile @ Science Museum/SSPL

Piccard and Kipfer's wicker-basket helmets @ Bettmann/CORBIS

Kittinger @ Time & Life Pictures

Goblin @ aviation-images.com

Chuck Yeager/Glamorous Glennis © Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

X-15 drops from B-52 @ NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA-DFRC)

Joe Walker @ Bettmann/CORBIS

Pterodactyl Ascender@ aviation-images.com

Leo Valentin @ Getty Images

Daedalus @ NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA-DFRC)

Paresev @ NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA-DFRC)

Cierva C-30 @ Getty Images

Burt Rutan with model @ Burt Rutan

variEZE plane @ Courtesy of Burt Rutan

Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer @ Thierry Boccon-Gibod

Rotary Rocket @ Getty Images

Plaque placed on the moon @ Mary Evans Picture Library/INTERFOTO AGENTUR

@ Ruth Murray, based on a drawing by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

WhiteKnightOne and SpaceShipOne © Jim Koepnick

Transhab module @ Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

New Mexico Spaceport @ Jared Tarbell

Photo of Earth as seen by Brian Binnie @ Brian Binnie

DNA of flight @ Virgin Galactic

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C.1: (слева вверху) photograph Larry Dale Gordon, (справа вверху) @ Mary Evans Picture Library, (внизу) Blanchard and Jeffries crashing in the Channel in 1785/The Bridgeman Art Library.

C.2: (вверху) SSPL via Getty Images. (Emmy) @ Hulton-Deutsch Collection/COR BIS.

C.3: (вверху) © Rex Features. (внизу) SSPL via Getty Images.

C.4: (вверху) @ Rex Features, (внизу) @ Bettmann/CORBIS.

C.5: (слева вверху) Cover of Le Petit Journal commemorating Roland Garros's flight across the Med, 1913/The Bridgeman Art Library, (справа вверху) © Getty Images, (внизу) @ STR/Keystone/CORBIS.

C. 6: (вверху) Popperfoto/Getty Images, (внизу) @ Bettman/CORBIS.

C.7: (вверху) aviation-irnages.com, (слева внизу) © Time & Life, Pictures/Getty Images, (справа снизу) @ NASA.

C.8: (вверху) © NASA, (внизу) @ SSPL viaGetty Images.

C.9: (вверху) Courtesy of Cameron Balloons Ltd, Bristol. UK 1966, (внизу) Sipa Press/Rex Features.

C. 10: (вверху) © Rex Features, (внизу) @ Jacques Langevin/Sygma/Corbis.

C.11: (вверху) @ Thierry Boccon-Gibod, (внизу) © US Coast Guard Service.

C. 12: (вверху) AFP/Getty Images, (внизу) @ Fabrice Coffrini/epa/Corbis.

C.13: (вверху) Thierry Boccon-Gibod, (внизу) AFP/Getty Images.

C.14: (вверху) @Jim Koepnick/Virgin Galactic. (внизу) © Claire Brown/Virgin Galactic.

C.15: (вверху) @ Mark Greenberg/Virgin Galactic, (внизу) © Mark Greenberg/Virgin Galactic.

C.16: (вверху) @ Mark Greenberg/Virgin Galactic. (внизу) Photo by Nick Galante/PM RF @ NASA.