Space Shuttle Atlantis, the United States' last serviceable manned spacecraft, launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:26am local time Friday.
On this day in 1964, the Vietnam War's first U.S. air operations take place. Terrorists attack Athens Airport in 1973. In 1981, Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers.
LOT Polish Airlines was born in 1929! Also, the crashes of Adam Air 574, Eastern 980, Air India 855 and Middle Eastern 438. Fiji Airways was formed in 1960, the first regular scheduled flight in 1914, first Heathrow flight in 1...