Flight- From Earth to Beyond. By damartinez15 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered flying machine 1927 Charles A. Lindbergh completes first solo, nonstop trans-Atlantic flight. 1930 Frank Whittle invents the jet engine 1932 Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly a solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight 1933 Modern airliner (Boeing 247) flies for the first time. 1947 Charles E. Yeager pilots Bell X-1 (first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound) 1957 Soviet Union launches first man-made earth satellite (Sputnik 1). 1969 U.S astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin are the first people to walk on the moon. 1971 First space station is launched into earth's orbit ( Soviet Salyut 1). 2000 First crew arrives to take up residence in the International Space Station