This week in aviation history features the death of Charles Lindbergh, the anniversary of the September 11th attacks, and the first airplane fatality.

August 25, 2003: NASA launched the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope.

August 26, 1974: Aviator Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic, died.

August 27, 1962: The U.S. launched the Mariner II space probe.

September 1, 1983: A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter, killing all 269 people aboard.

September 3, 1976: The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars and took the first pictures of the planet's surface.

September 11, 2001: Two hijacked commercial jets were crashed by terrorists into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing the collapse of both towers. A short while later, another plane was crashed into the Pentagon, and fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pa.

September 12, 1992: Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first black woman in space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour

September 14, 1959: The Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the Moon when it crashed onto the Lunar surface.

September 17, 1908: Lt. Thomas Selfridge, a passenger in a plane piloted by Orville Wright, became the first airplane fatality when the craft crashed.