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1000 BCE
Kite was invented
Kite is invented in china -
1500
Parachute and flying machines
Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machines and parachute. -
Glider
Bartolomeu Laurenço de Gusmao designs model glider. -
First free arial voyage
Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes make the first free aerial voyage in a Montgolfier hot-air balloon First documented hot air balloon ride. -
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries
1785-Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries cross the English Channel by balloon. -
Parachute decent
André Jacques Garnerin makes the first human parachute descent, from a balloon. -
Wilbur Wright
Wilbur Wright is born. -
Model helicopter
Alphonse Pénaud experiments with twisted rubber to power model helicopter. -
Biplane gliders
Otto Lilienthal flies biplane gliders. -
Steam powered model
Samuel P. Langley produces successful steam-powered models that fly. -
Wright brothers
Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine. -
Robert H. Goddard liquid-fueled rocket.
1926-Robert H. Goddard makes the first free flight of a liquid-fueled rocket. -
Charles A. Lindbergh nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.
Charles A. Lindbergh completes the first solo, nonstop trans-Atlantic flight. -
First man in space.
Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, is the first man in space. -
Man on the moon
U.S. astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., are the first to walk on the moon. -
Space station connection
The first two modules of the International Space Station are launched and joined together in orbit. -
International Space station
The first crew arrives to take up residence in the International Space Station.
