Soon after the world war, the great transports of European nations were flying over age-old trade routes to Asia, Africa, and South America to assure for the countries a greater share of the world’s commerce. Thirty-five years ago America gave the world the airplane. Once again we have come to a realization, just as did our forefathers in the days of sail, that America’s position among the nations of the world, the prosperity of our industry and commerce, the welfare of all our people is inseparably bound up in the advancement of our foreign trade. Today, the frontier of our great west is behind us. Our place upon the seas was soon forgotten as the manpower of the nation and its industry moved westward to develop the richest land empire the world has ever known. And in these thirty years our commerce mounted, our prestige among the nations rose, the standard of living of our people increased at a rate which has never since been equaled in our history.īut the age of iron and steam was coming and we were unprepared. With hard-driving Yankee masters on their quarter decks, they raced through gales and over endless seas, lee rails awash, tall-rigging, taut with full-blown sails, to sweep our flag to a leadership upon the Seven Seas that was never successfully to be challenged in the days of sail. From our seaports raced forth a new breed of ocean craft, the Clippers, of such sharp-cut lines and towering masts as had never before been seen upon the seas. Inspired in this cause our merchants provided the capital, our shipwrights the genius, our master mariners the driving power that brought into being a new maritime force. A small country, confined to our Atlantic coast, when our vital sea commerce was crowded from the seas by stronger competitors, America rose to claim her rightful maritime birthright. History has clearly shown that among all the nations in the world, those which have developed to the fullest, their facilities for communication and transport have been the nations which have led the advance of civilization, and which have raised above all others, the standard of living of their people.Ī century ago and for three brief decades, our nation held that world leadership. To its successful development they have each contributed greatly. To the five thousand men and women of the Pan American Airways System scattered at the posts in the United States and 46 foreign lands, it has a particular significance. To those, both within and without the aviation industry, who have labored long in the cause of America’s air leadership, the Yankee Clipper represents a vital achievement. Soon thereafter, it is hoped, this same Yankee Clipper will carry the American flag across aviation’s’ last frontier – the Atlantic Ocean – to link the New World and Old. Within a few minutes the First Lady of the Land will christen, in the name of the American people, a new flagship of America’s Merchant Marine of the Air. President of the Pan American Airways System Christening of the Yankee Clipper March 3, 1939 A dramatic view of Earth rising over a lunar horizon, taken from Apollo 12’s Yankee Clipper, is online at. 19, 1969, and later brought all three of the mission’s astronauts back to Earth, arriving Nov. Apollo 12’s Yankee Clipper orbited Earth’s moon while the mission’s lunar module carried two astronauts to the lunar surface on Nov. The rover science team uses a convention of assigning the names of historic ships of exploration as the informal names for craters seen by Opportunity. Yankee Clipper crater is about 10 meters (33 feet) in diameter. It combines images taken with the left eye and right eye of Opportunity’s navigation camera. The scene appears three-dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left. NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this stereo view of the crater during a pause in a 102-meter (365-foot) drive during the 2,410th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s work on Mars (Nov. “Yankee Clipper” crater on Mars carries the name of the command and service module of NASA’s 1969 Apollo 12 mission to the moon. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this stereo view of the crater during a pause in a 102-meter (365-foot) drive during the 2,410th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Nov. "Yankee Clipper" crater on Mars carries the name of the command and service module of NASA's 1969 Apollo 12 mission to the moon.
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