The man in the balloon. Eight days after the Civil War began, a showman in a silk hat floated into the sky—and accidentally into Confederate territory. Whoops. Thaddeus Lowe’s balloon experiments may have looked like a spectacle, but they helped launch the first real era of aerial reconnaissance, giving the Union a literal view of the battlefield from above. It was a strange, anything-goes start to military aviation, and basically the beginning of spy satellites.
—Andrew Daniels, Director of News
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