St. Louis Science Center: Astronomy Fact Of The Day: October 31, 2021

Press release from St. Louis Science Center:

October 31, 2021

Today in 1956, an airplane landed at the South Pole for the first time. When Navy Admiral George J. Dufek stepped off the Que Sera Sera, an LC-47 transport plane, he was the first American to set foot on there. He came with an advance party to build the first permanent South Pole Station.

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