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Did you know that a piece of cloth from the Wright Brothers' Flyer has travelled to the moon, and Mars?
One day in 1903 the Wright brothers entered a department store in Ohio to buy a bolt of fabric. The plain muslin cloth was most often used to make underwear.…
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Almost Underwear by author/illustrator Jonathan Roth, is subtitled How a Piece of Cloth Traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars. Aimed at kids ages five to nine but fascinating for all ages, it's the true story of how an ordinary piece of muslin, intended for ladies' bloomers, ended up wrapped around the wings of the airplane built by the Wright brothers for the world's first successful engine-powered flight in 1903. Decades later, Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, brought a swatch of this cloth with him in tribute. In 2021, JPL scientists sent a…
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