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Rockets are used as weapons in the Siege of Chioggiea, Italy.
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First recorded Human Flights in a hot-air balloon invented by the French brothers, Joseph and Etienne Monetgolfier
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Jaques Charles of France invents the hydrogen ballooon.
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William Congrieve devlops ship-fire rockets. These were used during these times, and on travel if needed.
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Sir Hiram Maxim'a enormous steam powered flying machine, Leviathan, rises sweveral inches off the ground for a few seconds.
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Lilienthal dies after a glider crash
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Amerian Samuel P. Langley launches a larg unmanned powered flying machione, a steam driven model called "Aerodome"
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Orville and Wilbur Wrights fly the first glider
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The wright borthers achieve the first CONTROLLED power flight in their airplane, going 120 ft in 12 seconds
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Konstantian Tsiolkovsky
publishes Research into Interplane Science by Means of Rocket power; a treatise on space travel -
Frenchman Louis Beleriot becomes the first to fly across the English Channel
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Robert H. Goddard develops designs for liquid-fueled rockets.
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Smithsonian Institute issues grant to Goddard for roket research
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First crew of American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts is placed on the International Space Station
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The Russian space station Mir is abandoned and allowed to fall from orbirt, burning up in the atmostphere
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First launches of US advanced Delta IV and Atlas V commercial rockets
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It has three ingredients mixed together: potassium nitrate (also called saltpeter), sulfur, and charcoal. Gunpowder, also called black powder, propelled the first bullets and rockets. The rocket used a low nitrate, slower-burning gunpowder and was self-propelled once the powder ignited.
