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DECLARED DEAD Missing since last September, adventurer and multimillionaire Steve Fossett was declared legally dead on Feb. 15. Fossett was 63 when his single-engine plane disappeared after taking off in Nevada. Billionaire and fellow adventure-buff Richard Branson intends to honor his close friend with a new vessel meant to carry people into space. It will be called Spirit of Steve Fossett...
...your outlook been affected by the passing of your friend, the adventurer Steve Fossett? -Joshua Foster, Spartanburg, S.C.People who really try to push boundaries often do not die in those pursuits. Lawrence of Arabia spent years fighting battles and got killed in a motorbike accident. When you're trying to achieve things man hasn't achieved before, you're trained for it. It's when you're off guard that things can be dangerous...
Number of square miles covered in the search for adventurer Steve Fossett using up-to-date Google Earth satellite images of Nevada...
MISSING There have been many perils Steve Fossett has handled fearlessly--plummeting 29,000 ft. (9 km) into the ocean in a hot-air balloon or realizing while flying solo that his fuel tanks were leaking. But with a "low threshold" for boredom, he pushed himself to a series of exploratory feats, most famously becoming the first person to fly around the world alone in a hot-air balloon, in 2002. "I don't like to be scared," he said. "I spend a lot of effort figuring out how to reduce risks." It is unclear whether such effort was enough...
...Numbers 67 hr. 2 min. 38 sec. Time it took financier turned adventurer Steve Fossett to become the first man to fly nonstop around the world without refueling 1.2 tons Approximate amount of fuel that unaccountably disappeared after takeoff...