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In China in 1000 b.c the kite was invented, taking as a model the planning of a hawk. -
the British king Bladud Albides tried to fly, building wings with feathers and jumping from the Apollo Temple, now London. -
Archytas of Tarentum had the idea to make a steam-propelled pigeon, it was working by a hidden air current acting inside it. -
Roger Bacon, an english cleric wrote the conclusion that the air could support an object in the same way the water resist a boat. -
Giovanni Fontana designed a bird able to fly.
Driven by a rocket among its artificial feathers (plane to reaction in a primitive way). -
Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machines and parachute. -
Francesco de Lana Terzi was made the first known design of an apparatus whose purpose was to fly, being lighter than air, in the form of a ship propelled by a sail -
Henry Cavendish discovered that hydrogen had a property that made it useful in experiments in which heavier-than-air objects were lifted from the ground. -
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and his brother raised a balloon over the city of Annonay in 1783, giving the first step to the origin of airships. -
André Jacques Garnerin makes the first human parachute descent, from a balloon -
George Cayley's biplane design is published. -
Henri Giffard's steam-powered airship makes first flight. -
Otto Lilienthal begins successful gliding experiments. -
Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine. -
Louis Bleriot, French aviator, makes first airplane crossing of English Channel. -
Frank Whittle, British inventor, invents the jet engine. -
Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly a solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight -
Germany's Heinkel 178 is the first fully jet-propelled aircraft to fly. -
Charles E. Yeager pilots Bell X-1—the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in level flight. -
Soviet Union launches first man-made earth satellite, Sputnik 1 -
The dog Laika became the first animal to travel to space aboard Sputnik 2. -
NASA launched Vanguard 1 into orbit, the first solar-powered satellite -
Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, is the first man in space. -
John H. Glenn, Jr., is the first American to orbit the earth. -
U.S. astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., are the first to walk on the moon. -
First space station, Soviet Salyut 1, is launched into earth's orbit. -
The alliance of the ships Soyuz and Apollo . -
First two modules of the International Space Station are launched and joined together in orbit. -
First crew arrives to take up residence in the International Space Station. -
In an unmanned test, the Martin jetpack reaches an altitude of 5,000 feet. -
On 1 November 2021 Gary Freedman flew New Zealand's only electric plane.