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"We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God.'" Source: Then-President Ronald Reagan.
The horizontal direction to or from any point, usually measured clockwise from true north, magnetic north, or some other reference point through 360 degrees
Aircraft accident sites are, in fact, places of historic interest. For a brief period of time, these places became hot-spots of activity, and nearly as much was learned from the accident as from the flight testing itself.