Early balloon flight in France

Credit - (c) 2002 Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Neg. No. A-30985

First powered flight

Credit - Gary Bradshaw, To Fly Is Everything

Dumont flies his airship around the Eiffel Tower

Credit - (c) 2002 Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Neg. No. 83-3941

Dumont's 14-bis

Credit - Wright State University

Eddie Rickenbacker and plane

Credit - (c) 2002 Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Neg. No. 73-7510-A

Charles Lindbergh

Credit - Library of Congress

Amelia Earhart

Credit - Centennial of Flight Commission

Cover of Amazing Stories showing Buck Rogers

Credit - www.buck-rogers.com

Mercury 7

Credit - NASA

Yuri Gagarin

Credit - Asif Siddiqi - Challenge to Apollo

Eileen Collins

Credit - NASA