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Aviation History: Wiley Post and Neil Armstrong

Filed in archive Aviation History on July 19, 2007

Aviation History: Wiley Post and Neil Armstrong
This week in aviation history features the first solo trip around the world and the first walk on the moon.

July 16, 1969: apollo 11 took off on the first manned flight to the moon.

July 16, 1999: John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren, died in a plane crash near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

July 17, 1975: The American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft linked up for the first time.

July 20, 1969: Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon.

July 21, 1998: Astronaut Alan Shepard died.

July 22, 1933: Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world.


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