1945- American yachtsman, balloonist, and endurance sportsman who made a career of setting world sports records during his worldwide adventures. Fossett swam the English Channel in 1985. In 1992 he participated in the Idatarod Dogsled Race. In 1995 he...

Steve Fossett Born 1945 Steve Fossett is drawn to adventure. The fifty-two-year-old Chicago-based investor and self-made millionaire has swum the English Channel and competed in Alaska’s 1,165-mile Iditarod dogsled race. He is the only man to have...

James Stephen Fossett (born April 22, 1944) is an American aviator, sailor and adventurer who has been missing since September 3, 2007. Fossett was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon. He made his fortune in the financial...

The search for millionaire aviator Steve Fossett, who disappeared a month ago in northern Nevada, was suspended again after what the Civil Air Patrol described as one of the largest efforts to locate a missing plane in modern history.The decision Tuesday came after renewed efforts...

Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who has cheated death time and again in his successful pursuit of aviation records, was missing Tuesday after taking off in a single-engine plane the day before to scout locations for a land-speed record, officials said.Teams searched a broad swath of...

As the search for Steve Fossett dragged into its ninth day Tuesday, experts said they doubted the millionaire adventurer could have survived more than a week in the rugged desert since his plane vanished.While the resourceful aviator could scratch water, food and shelter from the...

Volunteers have searched and re-searched an area nearly twice the size of New Jersey for missing millionaire Steve Fossett, and now, they're planning to search it again.Fossett, the famed survivalist and aviator, vanished during a flight earlier this month, believed to have only a bottle...