The first commercial airplane to fly around the sun has made history. The 211 day flight at mach 2 speeds of 600 mph had only 593 refueling stops along the 864,948.7 mile route. This occasion marks the first time anyone has traveled around the sun. To but that in perspective it take 365 days for the sun to travel around the Earth.
The previous milestone traveling around a large solar object via airplane was made in 1985 with the first airliner circled the moon. Here a 747 is flying around the west side of the sun after just passing one of the suns moons traveling towards its final destination on the dark side of the sun.
These challenges are made harder with the lack of air for airplanes to plane through. The airplane space race began when critics of airplane in airless outer spaces were silenced when a Boeing shattered disbelief by leaving the comforts of inner space in 1977 to be the first plane to fly around the Death Star in 1 round trip voyage.
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