1903

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• In his native Russia, academian Konstantin Tsilokovsky publishes the first of what will be many papers espousing the possibilities of manned flight into space via rocket technology. Among the concepts he envisions are the multi-stage rocket, the orbital space station, the space elevator, spacecraft airlocks, and closed-cycle spacecraft life support systems. All of these are generations ahead of their time.

• Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight of a heavier-than-air powered vehicle, the airplane, on the beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (United States).

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