His funeral resembled a medieval pageant, with giant umbrellas, white horses in black cloaks, and tens of thousands of weeping mourners following his coffin through the streets of Addis Ababa, as rain beat down on them from the grey skies above.

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The exhibition of jewelry and other objects that were either inspired by the skies above, made the trip to outer space, created out of materials that originated from heavenly bodies, or built from materials that were created during the space race is now open to the public and will run till September 7 at Forbes Galleries, 60 Fifth Avenue, New York.

FORBES: Outer Space Jewelry Exhibit Opens to the Public

Every new military technology that came along, from stealthy airframes to smart bombs to digital data links, seemed to demonstrate that future wars would be won in the skies above rather than on the ground below.

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