1783 - Montgolfier Brothers construct the first lighter-than-air vehicle
_____(a balloon)

1900 - Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's airship flies
1903 - Orville and Wilbur Wright fly first self-propelled airplane
1905 - Orville and Wilbur Wright fly first sustainable, controllable
_____self-propelled airplane
1909 - Louis Bleriot crosses English Channel in a monoplane
1909 - Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first licensed female pilot

1913 - Salim Ilkucan crosses Sea of Marmara by achieving the longest
_____over-sea flight in a doubleplane
1918 - United States Post Office establishes airmail service

1922 - Bessie Coleman becomes the first licensed African-American aviator _____in the world
1924 - First flight around the world
1926 - Lindbergh makes his first Chicago-to-St. Louis airmail flight
1926 - Air Commerce Act marks first federal attempt to set safety _____regulations for civil aeronautics and requires the registration and _____licensing of pilots and planes
1927 - Charles Lindbergh makes first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight

1930 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh becomes the first licensed female glider _____pilot in the United States
1932 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first female pilot to cross the Atlantic _____Ocean
1933 - Boeing 247 is built
1937 - Zeppelin Hindenburg burns

1942 - Tuskegee Airmen all-Black 99th Fighter Squadron forms
1946 - Radar bounces off the moon for the first time
1947 - The sound barrier is broken by Chuck Yeager

1950s - Technologies such as long-range missiles, computer systems, ______electronic controls, combustion chemistry, and new composite ______structures made possible by the aerospace industry
1953 - Jacquelin Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound _____barrier
1958 - The first American satellite to be placed in orbit around the Earth, _____"Explorer 1", is launched
1959 - NASA selects its first seven astronauts

1961 - Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space
1969 - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first persons to walk on _____the moon

1971 - NASA's Mariner 9 orbits Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit _____another planet
1971 - Boeing 747 makes its first commercial flight from New York to _____London
1972 - NASA announces the shuttle program
1976 - Concorde flies
1978 - NASA selects its first group of women astronauts

1981 - First Space Shuttle flight
1983 - Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, becomes the first _____U.S. woman to go up in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger
1986 - Challenger Space Shuttle explodes shortly after takeoff,
_____all seven crew members die

2003 - Aviation celebrates its first century
2005 - The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, was unveiled

Excerpts from www.lindberghfoundation.org