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The English King Bladud died in an attempt to fly.
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Da Vinci's advances included aeronautical designs such as ornithopters, flying machine's sketches and the design of flying mechanisms.
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French brothers, Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, invented the first practical hot air balloon.
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French inventor Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American physician John Jeffries, crossed the English Channel by balloon.
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André-Jacques Garnerin, was a French inventor of the frameless parachute. He was nominated as The Official Aeronaut of France.
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English engineer, George Cayley, designed many different versions of gliders and the first successful glider to carry a human being aloft.
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French engineer, Baptiste Jules Henri Jacques Giffard, invented the steam injector and the powered Giffard dirigible airship.
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German aviator, Otto Lilienthal, built and flew a series of highly successful full-size gliders. Lilienthal made close to 2,000 brief flights in 16 different designs based on his aerodynamic research.
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American aviation pioneer, Samuel Langley, designed and built Langley aerodrome No. 5, the first powered heavier-than-air machine to attain sustained flight.
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American brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, make the first manned, powered, controlled flight.
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New Zealand inventor, Richard Pearse, accomplished the first manned, powered, controlled flight.
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Coleman was the first African-American and Native American to earn an international pilot's license.
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American aviator, Charles Lindbergh, completed the first solo transatlantic flight.
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Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, an English Royal Air Force air officer who invented the turbojet engine.
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Aviator, Jean Batten, became the best-known New Zealander by making a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world. She made the first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand.
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United States Air Force officer, Charles Yeager, became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.
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Flights are offered in the first commercial jet airliner, the de Havilland DH 106 Comet.
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The Soviet Union launches first man-made earth satellite, Sputnik 1.
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Neil Armstrong, "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11 and the first humans to ever step on the moon.
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A British–French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, the first and only civilian aircraft.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration operated The Space Shuttle, which was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system.
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NASA sends the Mars Pathfinder, an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars.
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The first crew arrives to take up residence in the International Space Station, a modular space station in low Earth orbit.
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The Falcon 1 was an expendable launch system privately developed and manufactured by SpaceX, it was the first privately funded liquid-propellant rocket to reach orbit.
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Terrafugia was developed, an aeroplane that can take off and land at any airport and, with the push of a button, fold up its wings and drive down the road.
