The History of Flight

By weskzac

  • Otto Lilienthal starts successful glider experiments

    Otto Lilienthal starts successful glider experiments
    Picture Source: https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/UEET/StudentSite/historyofflight.html

  • Otto Lilienthal flies biplane gliders

  • Octave Chanute begins biplane gliding experiments in Michigan

  • Samuel P. Langley makes successful steam powered models and adds power to gliders

    Samuel P. Langley makes successful steam powered models and adds power to gliders
    Picture Source: https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/UEET/StudentSite/historyofflight.html

  • Otto Lilienthal crashes while gliding and dies next day

  • Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont circles Eiffel Tower in an airship

  • Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine

    Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine
    Picture Souce: https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/UEET/StudentSite/historyofflight.html

  • The Wright brothers come back to Dayton Ohio to perfect their design for the final flight which was 39 minutes and about 24 miles

    The Wright brothers come back to Dayton Ohio to perfect their design for the final flight which was 39 minutes and about 24 miles

  • Robert H. Goddard makes first free flight of a liquid-fueled rocket

  • Charles A. Lindbergh completes first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight

    Charles A. Lindbergh completes first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight
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  • British inventor Frank Whittle invents the jet engine

  • Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly a solo nonstop transatlantic flight

  • One of the first modern airliners, the Boeing 247, flies for the first time

  • Charles E. Yeager pilots Bell X-1--the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in level flight

  • Soviet Union sends the first man-made earth satellite into space, Sputnik 1

  • Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, is the first man in space

  • John H. Glenn, Jr., is the first American to orbit the earth

  • U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, are the first to walk on the moon

    U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, are the first to walk on the moon
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  • First space station, Soviet Salyut 1, is launched into earth's orbit

  • U.S. launches the first reusable spacecraft, the Columbia shuttle

    U.S. launches the first reusable spacecraft, the Columbia shuttle
    Picture Source: http://news.discovery.com/space/history-of-space/remembering-space-shuttle-columbia-disaster-130201.htm

  • First two modules of the International Space Station are launched and joined together in orbit

  • First crew arrives to take up residence in the International Space Station