It's been said that there are many ways to fly.  Photo courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

Okay, Charles Lindbergh, we get it.  It's that long.  Guess you won't need to ask for another endowment.  (Photo c. 1927, courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.)

"The jumper plunges into this vortex" (Tobi Tobias, "Three Times Lucky," New York Magazine, 1984).  Photograph by Leslie Jones, date uncertain.

From the Costică Acsinte Archive.

"We wear our years like a red badge of courage — and some of us even admit our age" (Kay Allenbaugh, Chocolate For A Woman's Blessings).  Our photo is courtesy of the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.

"We can none of us ... escape what frames us" (Michael Joyce, Moral Tales and Meditations).  Photo courtesy of the Standford Archives.

Every writer has experienced this: "When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the room, we'll spin-up!"  Astronaut training photo with speech balloon as scanned by the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

From the Costică Acsinte archive.

You've heard of remaining calm in the midst of turmoil.  Here's what it looks like, courtesy of the San Diego Air and Space Museum archives.

"Perched on the top of an anthill."  Sir Albert Ruskin Cook, c.1896, Uganda.  (Scanned by the Wellcome Library.)

"Inverted photo of Mrs. Van Hoof."  Yet surely a photo is inverted only if we turn it upside down and then write a caption upon it.

Daredevil Birdie Draper crashed the brick wall of death on this day in 1938.

"Soaring on the air.  Nothing can touch us."  Aug. 5, 1904.

"Architecture doubles as atmosphere" (Interiors magazine, 1968).  This accidental double exposure is from C. W. Allen's WWII album, scanned by the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.

The General Dynamics 1964 Mercury Program and time capsule (to be opened in year 2464).  Here's the artist's rendering and the monument being fashioned.

"Watch it -- there's a woman here."  Photo courtesy of the Stanford Archive.

If you thought $2.99 was steep enough for streaming a movie, imagine paying $650 to get a picture.  Interestingly, the tube Dr. Terman is holding is about the size of the modern laptop (if more oval).  Photo courtesy of the Stanford Historical Archives.

"Two and a Quarter is not the same as Deuce and a Quarter" (Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split, 2011).  Photo courtesy of the Stanford Archives.