Categories - Aviation, Space Exploration

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  1. The Air Commerce Act Creates a Federal Airways System
  2. Air Traffic Controllers Declare a Strike
  3. Aircraft Carriers
  4. Alan Shepard
  5. Alberto Santos-Dumont
  6. Amelia Earhart
  7. Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev
  8. Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon
  9. Apollo-Soyuz Rendezvous Inaugurates International Cooperation in Space
  10. Astronauts Renovate Hubble Telescope
  11. Astronauts Repair the Hubble Space Telescope
  12. Atlas-Centaur Rocket Is Developed
  13. Aviator Earhart Disappears in Flight over South Pacific
  14. Baron Manfred von Richthofen
  15. Bell’s X-1 Rocket Plane Breaks Sound Barrier
  16. Blériot Makes the First Airplane Flight Across the English Channel
  17. The Boeing 707 Begins Commercial Service
  18. Braniff International Suspends Flight Operations
  19. Carter Signs the Airline Deregulation Act
  20. Challenger Accident
  21. Charles A. Lindbergh
  22. Columbia’s Second Flight Proves the Practicality of the Space Shuttle
  23. Concorde Flies Passengers at Supersonic Speeds
  24. Congress Begins Hearings on Cost Overruns for the C-5A Galaxy
  25. Congress Centralizes Regulation of U.S. Commercial Air Traffic
  26. Continental Airlines Declares Bankruptcy
  27. The DC-3 Opens a New Era of Commercial Air Travel
  28. Defense Cutbacks Devastate the U.S. Aerospace Industry
  29. Echo, the First Passive Communications Satellite, Is Launched
  30. Eddie Rickenbacker
  31. Ernst Heinkel
  32. A European Consortium Plans the Airbus
  33. European Space Agency Is Formed
  34. Evidence of Martian Ocean Is Reported
  35. First American in Space
  36. First Commercial Airliners Begin Operating
  37. The First Jet Plane Using Whittle’s Engine Is Flown
  38. The First Jumbo Jet Service Is Introduced
  39. First Nonstop Around-the-World Balloon Trip Is Completed
  40. The First Permanently Manned Space Station Is Launched
  41. The First Rocket with More than One Stage Is Created
  42. The First Space Walk Is Conducted from Voskhod 2
  43. The First Tracking and Data-Relay Satellite System Opens a New Era in Space Communications
  44. The Fokker Aircraft Are the First Airplanes Equipped with Machine Guns
  45. Former Astronaut Glenn Returns to Space
  46. Frank Whittle
  47. Full Crew Leaves Russian Space Station Mir
  48. Gagarin Becomes the First Human to Orbit Earth
  49. Galileo Makes Closest Pass to Jupiter’s Moon Europa
  50. Galileo Spacecraft Reaches Jupiter
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