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Rockets/Weapons
Rockets are used as weapons in the Siege of Chioggiea, Italy. -
Human Flight
First recorded Human Flights in a hot-air balloon invented by the French brothers, Joseph and Etienne Monetgolfier -
Hydrogen Balloon
Jaques Charles of France invents the hydrogen ballooon. -
Ship-Fired rockets
William Congrieve devlops ship-fire rockets. These were used during these times, and on travel if needed. -
Leviathan
Sir Hiram Maxim'a enormous steam powered flying machine, Leviathan, rises sweveral inches off the ground for a few seconds. -
Dead
Lilienthal dies after a glider crash -
Aerodome
Amerian Samuel P. Langley launches a larg unmanned powered flying machione, a steam driven model called "Aerodome" -
First glider
Orville and Wilbur Wrights fly the first glider -
The flyer
The wright borthers achieve the first CONTROLLED power flight in their airplane, going 120 ft in 12 seconds -
Konstantian Tsiolkovsky
Konstantian Tsiolkovsky
publishes Research into Interplane Science by Means of Rocket power; a treatise on space travel -
English Channel
Frenchman Louis Beleriot becomes the first to fly across the English Channel -
Liquid Fueled
Robert H. Goddard develops designs for liquid-fueled rockets. -
Rocket research award
Smithsonian Institute issues grant to Goddard for roket research -
ISS
First crew of American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts is placed on the International Space Station -
Out of Orbit
The Russian space station Mir is abandoned and allowed to fall from orbirt, burning up in the atmostphere -
Delta IV and Atlas V
First launches of US advanced Delta IV and Atlas V commercial rockets -
Gun powder and rocketry
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.
