Steve Fossett is about to land and successfully end his historic non-stop solo flight around the world. AMAZING.

Air travel has become such a part of life and globalization for such a long time that it's amazing to think it's taken until 2005 for a person to fly non-stop-solo around the world. You'd think that by 2005 everything that could have been done in a plane had been done, but Fossett's adventure proves otherwise. First a balloon, now a plane, Fossett is quite an adventurer.