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History of flight

By cmiller
  • 400 BCE

    The first ideas of flight

    The first ideas of flight started to be developed in early 400 B.C. There have been myths of gods in Chinese and Greek mythology who could fly. That is how we got the idea.
  • 1480

    Leonardo’s ideas of flight

    Around the 1480’s, Leonardo da Vinci started to get ideas of flight. He had over 100 illustrations of how we could fly.

  • The first hot air balloon

    Joseph and Jacques montgolfier invented the first hot air balloon in France on November 21, 1783.

  • The first flight

    The first flight happened on December 17, 1903. The wright brothers made a glider that traveled 850 feet in 59 seconds.

  • Space travel

    The first rocket to ever enter space was a Russian satellite that was launched on October 4, 1957

  • Space exploration

    The first human to ever enter space was yuri alekseyevik Gagarin was the first person to ever exit the atmosphere. This happened on April 12, 1961.