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.