Realizing the Dream of Flight

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Realizing the Dream of Flight is written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by Government Printing Office. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0160831512 (ISBN 10) and 9780160831515 (ISBN 13).

These essays in celebration of the Wright brothers' first flight 100 years ago grew out of presentations by a group of prominent scholars in 2003 at a conference sponsored by the NASA History Division and held at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The volume focuses on the careers of some of the many men and women who helped to realize the dream of flight both through the atmosphere and beyond. These accounts are original and compelling because they examine the history of flight through the lens of biography.