Event Types: Aviation and Aeronautics

Adeline Gray was just 24, but she was already an experienced parachutist and a trained pilot when she tested the first nylon parachute.

Lyon’s Élisabeth Thible became the first woman on record to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Eight months after the first manned balloon flight, Thible flew with Mr. Fleurant […]

The first flight over Mount Everest takes place, funded by Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, Lady Houston. The construction of the plane provided unprecedented experience for the engineers and helped convince […]

Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to complete a solo-transatlantic flight by flying 2,026 miles from Newfoundland to Ireland in just under 15 hours.

Departing on 20 May and arriving the next day, Amelia Earhart became the first woman—and the only person since Charles Lindbergh—to fly nonstop and alone across the Atlantic, landing her […]

Dr. Anna L. Fisher, a physician on the shuttle Discovery, becomes the first American mother and third American woman to fly into space.

Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

The space shuttle Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center. On board is astronaut Ellen Ochoa, soon to become the first Hispanic woman in space.

Astronaut Shannon Lucid transfers to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay. Lucid was the first female U.S. astronaut to live […]

In the first flight of its kind, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart left Wheeler Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, on a solo flight to North America. Hawaiian commercial interests offered a $10,000 […]