Failure – TALK TO ME

Folder: Failure

Lantern slide. T.E. Lawrence with Emir Abdullah, c. 1917.

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On 20 April 2008, Brazilian priest Adelir Antônio de Carli left Paranaguá (PR), bound for Dourados, in Mato Grosso do Sul. He flew in colourful helium balloons and aimed to stay in the air for 20 hours. The winds carried him into the Atlantic Ocean, communications and navigation failed, and his body was only found, by chance, 3 months later by a ship.

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Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after take-off, January 28, 1986 [NASA].

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Apollo 1 Crew Members (June 1966). Prime crew members announced by NASA for the first manned Apollo 1 flight practice water egress procedures in a swimming pool at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston. Astronaut Edward H. White II rides life raft in the foreground. Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee sits in hatch of the boilerplate model of the spacecraft. Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, third member of the crew, waits inside the spacecraft. The Apollo 1 never made it to space, though, as the crew was lost in a fire during a ground simulation. (NASA)

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01 Nov 1947, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA --- Howard Hughes makes preparations for the historic flight of the Spruce Goose. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

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01 Nov 1947, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA Howard Hughes makes preparations for the historic flight of the Spruce Goose. Designed to be used during World War…