A fuselage is the body of an aircraft, which houses passengers, cargo, and pilots. The aerodynamics of a fuselage are typically...
Matthew Henson, a black man, became the first American to set foot on the North Pole
Other European states, such as the UK, are involved - so too the Americans, the Russians and the Chinese. The mission has echoes of the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen's attempt in the 1890s to be the first person to reach the North Pole by drifting in a ship locked in ice. A schooner called Tara also traversed the frozen ocean - from Siberian waters to the Fram Strait - in the same way a decade ago.