The goal for the Solar Impulse, the world’s first solar-powered airplane, was 24 hours when the plane took off from a Swiss airport yesterday.  Today, the plane landed some 26 hours after its initial flight.  It was the longest and highest flight ever made by a solar-powered craft, at 26 hours overnight and a staggering 28,543 feet in the air.  Successful is an understatement when it comes to the Solar Impulse and its crew of Robert Piccard and Andre Borschberg!

“It’s the first time ever that a solar airplane has flown through the night,” Mr. Piccard told journalists after the landing.  “That was the moment that proved the mission was successful, we made it.  Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.”

Myth?  More like reality when you’re dealing with these two adventurers and their solar-powered craft.  Their next noble goal is circumnavigating the globe, which they hope to accomplish by 2013.  I have no doubt they’ll eventually do it, given how successful this initial flight was!

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