Flight

Who did the press hail as the conqueror of the air?  Alberto Santos-Dumont, who flew around the Eiffel Tower while Jules Verne and H.G. Wells watched and wondered.  He even tied his “personal airship” to the lamp posts outside restaurants in Paris, and worked to revolutionize transportation.  Then the world discovered the Wright Brothers had made an unpublicized flight three years earlier.  Next time on To the Best of Our Knowledge, fantasies of flight on its 100th anniversary. And, the thirteen American women astronauts who never went into orbit.