New Zealand is a remote, mountainous group of islands located off the southeast coast of Australia.
Pilot and humpback whales visit the islands on their way to breed, and orcas come
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singers Madonna, Diana Ross, and Stevie Wonder; tennis player Serena Williams; and pilot
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If you think of the eight planets as members of Earth’s family—friendly cousins who swing by regularly and never cause any grief—then asteroids are the total strangers lurking in the neighborhood. And like strangers, their visits aren’t always welcome. Asteroids are the rubble left over from the solar system’s formation roughly 4.6 billion years ago.
between rocks is more than a million miles (1.2 million kilometers), giving space pilots
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to freedom during the Civil War; Amelia Earhart, one of the world’s first female pilots
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HOW IT STARTED: Legend has it that British pilots buzzing around islands off South
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Wilbur Wright (right) and an unidentified friend assist Orville as he pilots a glider
