History of Flight Flight Time Line

Leonardo da Vinci ( )

Montgolfier Hot Air Balloon Flight – November 21, res/images/wb0108s.jpg

Chanute Gliders –

Wright Brothers First Powered Flight – December 17,

Wright Brothers – World’s First Practical Airplane –

Goddard – First Free Flight Liquid Fueled Rocket – atlib/afc /afc- legacies/NM/ /i0001.jpg

Lindbergh – First Solo Nonstop Trans-Atlantic Flight

Earhart – First Woman to Fly Solo Nonstop Trans-Atlantic Flight –

Yeager – Bell X-1 – First aircraft to exceed speed of sound –

Yuri Gagarin – First Man in Space – Moscow-VDNH-Rocket_R-7-1.jpg/250px-Russia-Moscow-VDNH-Rocket_R- 7-1.jpg

First Men on Moon – July 20, (cph+3c22951http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi- 1(cph+3c22951)) Buzz_Aldrin_black_and_white_dress _uniform_photo_portrait.jpg od/ap html

Space Shuttle Columbia – First Shuttle Flight – April 12-14, pnp/cph/3g00000/3g03000/3g 03600/3g03613t.gif nt/wp/en-commons/thumb/c/c4/300px- Space_Shuttle_Columbia_launching.jpg

International Space Station – Began

. Standing left to right alongside of Bell XS-1 are: Captain Charles E. Yeager, Major Gus Lundquist and Captain James Fitzgerald. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs.Standing left to right alongside of Bell XS-1 are: Captain Charles E. Yeager, Major Gus Lundquist and Captain James Fitzgerald. Associated Press. (1937). [Amelia Earhart, seated in airplane, checking equipment]. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs.[Amelia Earhart, seated in airplane, checking equipment]. Chanute, O. (1896). Photographs of Chanute glider being flown over dunes on Lake Michigan, Library of Congress: Exhibitions, The Dream of Flight.Photographs of Chanute glider being flown over dunes on Lake Michigan, Chanute, O. (1900). Octave Chanute Papers: Special Correspondence--Wright Brothers, Library of Congress: American Memory, The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress.Octave Chanute Papers: Special Correspondence--Wright Brothers, Da Vinci, L. (1893). I Manoscritti di Leonardo da Vinci Sul Volo degli Uccelli e Varie Altre Materie. Library of Congress: Exhibitions, The Dream of Flight.I Manoscritti di Leonardo da Vinci Sul Volo degli Uccelli e Varie Altre Materie. Daniels, J. T. (1903). First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m., Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 17, Library of Congress: Exhibitions, The Dream of Flight.First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m., Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 17,

Unknown. (1783). Premier Voyage Aerien sous la direction de Mr. Montgolfier, Library of Congress: Exhibitions, The Dream of Flight.Premier Voyage Aerien sous la direction de Mr. Montgolfier, Unknown. (1905). [Flight 41: Orville flying to the left at a height of about 60 feet; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio]. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs, Wright Brothers Negatives. [Flight 41: Orville flying to the left at a height of about 60 feet; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio]. Unknown. ( ). Neil A. Armstrong, half-length portrait, facing slightly left. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs.Neil A. Armstrong, half-length portrait, facing slightly left. Unknown. ( ). Flight deck of space shuttle Columbia. Library of Congress: American Memory.Flight deck of space shuttle Columbia. Unknown. (c1927). Charles Lindbergh, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, beside the Spirit of St. Louis. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs.Charles Lindbergh, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, beside the Spirit of St. Louis. Unknown. (ca.1925). Scientist, possibly Dr. Robert H. Goddard, posed with a rocket. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs.Scientist, possibly Dr. Robert H. Goddard, posed with a rocket. Unknown. (ca.1961). Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, in uniform. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs.Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, in uniform.