Event Types: Aviation and Aeronautics

Birth of Katherine Stinson, the fourth licensed woman pilot in the country (1912), first to fly mail from Helena, Montana (1913), first woman to “loop the loop” (1915) and the […]

Blanche S. Scott became the first woman in the US to make a public solo airplane flight, reaching an altitude of 12 feet at a park in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan is the first U.S. woman astronaut to “walk” in space during Challenger flight.

When terrorists hijacked Pan Am Flight 73, flight attendant Neerja Bhanot gave her life to save it.

The Women’s Air Derby was the first official women-only plane race in the United States, taking place during the 1929 National Air Races. Humorist Will Rogers referred to it as […]

Judith A. Resnick is the second U.S. woman in space, traveling on the first flight of the space shuttle Discovery.

Apollo 11 launches, thanks in part to lead software engineer Margaret Hamilton. She and her team wrote the code and algorithms for the spacecraft’s in-flight software, which included instructions for […]

The Lockheed aircraft carrying American aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan is reported missing near Howland Island in the Pacific. The pair were attempting to fly around the world […]

The Challenger STS-7 launches, making Sally Ride the first American woman in space.

Valentina Tereshkova is the first and youngest woman to have flown in space with a solo mission on the Vostok 6.