Chuck Yeager

Sixty years after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, there is a renewed push for commercial supersonic jet travel. Russ Mitchell reports.
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Posted: 6/25/2009

On this day in history: Pilot Chuck Yeager was the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound in 1947, Martin Luther King jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Born: Ralph Lauren, Usher.
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Posted: 10/22/2008

The Right Stuff is based on abook by Tom Wolfe. They recount the story of the first seven astronauts selected for the NASA space program, based on interviews and research by the author. The story contrasts the "Mercury Seven" and their families with Chuck Yeager, who was considered by many test pilots to be the best of them all, but who was never selected as an astronaut. The Mercury Seven were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton.
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Length: 03:29
Posted: 7/23/2009