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Aulus Gellius creates a wooden pigeon, stream powered and suspended on wires.
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The first rocket was invented by the Chinese, and were said to look like 'arrows of flying fire'. They were used against the Mongol invaders.
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A two stage rocket was invented by a German firework maker Johann Schmidlap to reach higher altitude.
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Sir Isaac Newton published a book - Principia - which was about his three laws of motion and laid the foundation for modern rocketry.
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky had the idea to use rockets for space exploration, saying that liquid propellants would have greater success.
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Robert H. Goddard used liquid oxygen and gasoline for a rocket, which only flew 12.5 metres up.
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Ballistic missiles are developed by German engineers led by Wernher Von Braun during the Second World War.
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The Soviet Union launches the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite.
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Successful launch of Luna 1 by the Russians, which sees the rocket fly past the moon.
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The first person to orbit Earth was Russian Yuri Gagarin.
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Neil Armstrong went the Moon in the rocket Apollo 11. He is the first person to set walk on the Moon.
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NASA launched its first space shuttle in April, 1981. They were used to build the International Space Station. They continued launching them until the last space shuttle was launched in July 2011.
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Juno begins its five year journey to Jupiter.
