WONDERS IN HEAVEN Part 1

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WONDERS IN HEAVEN:
Flying Machines

1903: The first recorded controlled, powered, sustained heavier-than-air flight - by Wilbur and Orville Wright; Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. 






1951: The first commercial Jet Airliner flight - the de Havilland DH 106 Comet 






1957: The first Satellite put into orbit – Sputnik 1; Soviet Union 






1961: The first manned space flight - Vostok 1, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin; Soviet Union 






1962: The first Inter-Planetary Probe – Mariner 2 goes to Venus; United States 






1969: The first humans on the Moon - Apollo 11, Astronauts Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin; United States 







1976: The first spacecraft to operate on Mars – Viking Lander; United States 





1981: The first Space Shuttle - Columbia, launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida (exploded in 2003) 





1983: The first spacecraft to cross Asteroid Belt, pass Jupiter, leave Solar System – Pioneer 10; United States 






2004: - The first privately-owned manned space flight – 
SpaceShipOne; United States