Sure, Superman makes it look easy, but human flight didn’t happen overnight. From the first wooden kites to the just-launched Space Shuttle Endeavour, we bring you a visual timeline of the history of flight. Turns out, you need a lot more than just Red Bull to give you wings…
From what i know,and after searching the net confirming that, the first jet engine was invented by the romanian inventor Henri Coanda in 1910,and not by a british inventor, twenty years later. So i think he deserves the honor…
Missed a few:
1919 – John Alcock & Arthur W. Brown make first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight.
1944 – Germany launches V2, first ballistic missile.
1952 – de Havilland Comet, first jet airliner enters service.
1959 – Luna 2 becomes first craft to impact the moon.
1966 – Luna 9 becomes first craft to soft-land on the moon.
1987 – Kvant 1 joins Mir base block, making Mir the first modular space station.
Additional firsts include:
1960 – Belka and Strelka become first animals to survive a round-trip to orbit.
1961 – Gherman Titov becomes first man to sleep in space.
1963 – Valentine Tereshkova becomes first woman is space.
1964 – Voskhod 1 is the first spacecraft to carry a multi-manned crew.
1965 – Alexey Leonov makes first space-walk.
1967 – First unmanned space docking
1970 – Venera 7 becomes the first probe to transmit information from the surface of another planet.
1987-1988 – Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov become first men to spend a year in space.
WTF????? HOW ABOUT THE BRAZILIAN Alberto Santos-Dumont ?????? GOOGLE HIM!
Bullshit…
Santos Dumont is the real creator of the airplane.