Forwarded from The New Sexy
🚀These are the F-1 engines on the Saturn V (with Wernher von Braun for scale). @scienceissexy
Philippe Petit during his remarkable walk between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in August 8, 1974 @facethenation
Elsa Andersson was Sweden's first female aviator and stunt parachutist @facethenation
Margaret Heafield was a NASA lead software engineer for Apollo Space Program with the source-code of Apollo Guidance Computer in 1969 @facethenation
George Washington "the Peanut Man" Carver is known for his work with peanuts (though he did not invent peanut butter, as some may believe) @facethenation
Miss Charlotte Cooper became the first female Olympic champion in history, with two tennis victories in the ladies singles and the mixed doubles, Paris, 1900 @facethenation
Navy Corpsman Bartolocci, attached to a Marine unit on Saipan, administers blood plasma to a wounded Marine in June 15, 1944 @facethenation
Claude Monet was a famous French painter whose work gave a name to the art movement Impressionism, which was concerned with capturing light and natural forms @facethenation
Benazir Bhutto the first woman to lead a Muslim country in modern history and become prime minister of Pakistan @facethenation
Crew of Apollo 11 with President Nixon: Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin in 1969 @facethenation
President Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy arriving at the Dallas airport on the day of his assassination, November 1963 @facethenation
Gandhi meets with Charlie Chaplin at the home of Gandhi's friend Dr. Chuni Lal Katial in Canning Town, London, September 22, 1931 @facethenation
General Douglas MacArthur watches as representatives of Japan stand aboard the USS Missouri prior to signing of the Instrument of Surrender ending World War II on September 2, 1945 @facethenation