Event Types: Aviation and Aeronautics

Hilda Hewlett becomes England’s first licensed female pilot.

Lilly Steinschneider becomes Hungary’s first licensed female pilot.

Lidia Zvereva becomes Russia’s first licensed female pilot.

Chiaki Mukai, along with two men, are chosen to be Japan’s first astronauts.

Harriet Quimby takes her pilot’s test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator’s certificate.

Elvy Kalep passed her pilot’s test in Germany, becoming the first qualified female pilot from Estonia.

Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman commander of a space shuttle mission (launching the Milky Way’s most powerful X-ray telescope.) Just four years earlier, she’d broken through another glass […]

Clara Adams set a world record for an around-the-world flight solely on scheduled passenger airlines.

Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space as she carried out more than three hours of experiments outside the orbiting space station Salyut 7.

The space shuttle Challenger – carrying America’s first woman in space, Sally K. Ride – coasted to a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.