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