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BaconRoger Bacon, English cleric, writes about mechanical flight
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Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machines and parachute.
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BorelliGiovanni Borelli, Italian mathematician, concludes human muscle is inadequate for flight.
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Jacques Alexandre César Charles and M.N. Robert fly in a hydrogen balloon.
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George Cayley's biplane design is published.
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Wright BrothersOrville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine.
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Robert H. Goddard makes first free flight of a liquid-fueled rocket.
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Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly a solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight.
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First crew arrives to take up residence in the International Space Station.
