Adventurer Steve Fossett

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Steve Fossett talks with the media after piloting the record setting Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer to its new home, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on May 23, 2006, in Chantilly, Va. Fossett was reported missing Sept. 4, 2007, after taking off on a solo flight in Nevada. Wreckage, some of Fossett's belongings and bones later identified as Fossett's were found more than a year later near Mammoth Lakes, Calif.

Author: CBS News Staff

Credit: GETTY IMAGES/Chip Somodevilla

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