Technology Over Time Flight

First man to fly

Mar 16, 1010

Oliver of Malmesbury, a Benedictine monk, was the first man to fly for some distance with the aid of wings. He jumped from Malmesbury Abbey and alighted 125 paces before falling and breaking his legs

Kites

Mar 16, 1300

Marco Polo witnessed kites carrying humans in China

Vinci's glider

Mar 16, 1488

In Italy, Leonardo de Vinci made the first design of flying machines, using bird wings for models

Safe landing

Apr 19, 1600

Hezarfen Celebi leapt from a tower at Galata and flew some distance before landing safely in the market place of Scutari.

Model hot air balloon

Mar 16, 1709

Father Bartolomeu de Gusmao demonstrated a model hot air balloon to King John V

The balloon of the Montgolfier brothers

Jun 4, 1783

The balloon of the Montgolfier brothers becomes the first unmanned balloon flight. The balloon was propelled by burning a pile of moist wool and old shoes.

World's first successful model glider.

Mar 16, 1804

Sir George Cayley builds and flies the world's first successful model glider.

Moon photo

Mar 23, 1840

The first photograph is taken of the Moon

First airship

Sep 24, 1852

A steam engine powers the first airship flown by Henri Giffard

First Zeppelin

Jul 2, 1900

The first flight of the Zeppelin, a "rigid" airship that was the first aircraft to use large metal structures.

Last Wright flight

May 21, 1910

Wilbur Wright makes his last flight as a pilot in the United States. He flew at Simm's Station in Dayton, Ohio.

first parachute

Oct 16, 1912

A. Leo Stevens designs the "life-pack" parachute

Mail call!

Feb 22, 1920

First transcontinental mail service arrives in New York from San Francisco. The trip takes 33 hours and 20 minutes - nearly three days faster than rail service.

Help from friends

Mar 25, 1940

The Army and Navy agree to stand aside to give France and Britain virtually unhindered access to the latest models of American warplanes, releasing to the Allies over 600 planes now under construction.

First Manmade object in space V2 or A4 rocket

Oct 3, 1942

The V-2 rocket (A Nazi weapon) became the first artificial object to cross the boundary of space with the vertical launch of V-177 on 3rd October 1942 Its maximum speed was :5,760 km/h (3,580 mph)

US Radation test

May 10, 1946

First space research flight (cosmic radiation experiments) from a captured

Pictures of Earth from V2

Oct 24, 1946

First pictures of Earth from taken by US from captured V2 105 km (65 mi)

First animals

Feb 20, 1947

Were fruit flies put in space using the V2

First ICBM

Aug 21, 1957

R-7 Semyorka/SS-6 Sapwood Russian

First artificial satellite

Oct 4, 1957

Or a manmade satellite. The moon is a natural satellite.
First signals from space Sputnik 1

First animal in orbit

Nov 3, 1957

First animal in orbit, the dog Laika a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. Laika, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on November 3, 1957.

Confirmed the existence of the Van Allen belts

Jan 31, 1958

Earths magnetic field. Makes a compass point North

First firing of a rocket in space

Jan 3, 1959

At 00:56:20 UTC on 3 January, at a distance of 119,500 kilometres (74,300 mi) from Earth,[5] 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of sodium gas was released by the spacecraft, forming a cloud behind it to serve as an artificial comet. This glowing orange trail of gas, visible over the Indian Ocean with the brightness of a sixth-magnitude star for a few minutes, was photographed by Mstislav Gnevyshev at the Mountain Station of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR near Kislovods

First woman in space

Jun 16, 1963

Valentina Tereshkova was was a Russian Cosmonaut becoming the first woman in space

First soft landing on another world (the Moon) First photos from another world

Feb 3, 1966

The U.S.S.R were the first on the moon. Using luna 9

First impact into another planet (Venus)

Mar 1, 1966

Another achievement made by the Soviets using Venera 3

First automated (crewless) docking

Oct 30, 1967

First automated (crewless) docking by the U.S.S.R

Tu-144

Dec 31, 1968

The Tu-144, the first Soviet Super Sonic Transport, flew.

Apollo 11

Jul 16, 1969

•July 16-24, 1969 - Apollo 11: First human lunar landing. At 4:18 p.m. EST on July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin landed on the lunar surface while command module pilot Michael Collins orbited overhead. "That's one small step for man - one giant leap for mankind."

Double Eagle

Mar 17, 1981

Double Eagle V: First balloon flight over the Pacific Ocean.

First flight

Apr 4, 1983

STS-6, the first flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Challenger Disaster

Jan 28, 1986

STS-51L, Challenger accident, in which seven astronauts were killed.

Malaysian Jet

Mar 8, 2016

Missing Malaysian Jet Remains “Agonizing Mystery” Two Years After Disappearance - On Tuesday, 8 March 2016, Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Najib Razak, says that his government remains dedicated to solving the “agonizing mystery” of MH370, as the country marks the second anniversary of the aircraft’s disappearance. The search efforts to find the jet, covering 120,000 square kilometers of the southern Indian Ocean, are slated to be complete in June. In a distributed email, Najib says