Aviation History: Wiley Post and Neil Armstrong

Filed in archive Aviation History on July 19, 2007

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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