Mulbin has posted "A complete-ish history of Spaceflight" (or something like that). I was inspiried, and here it is: A complete-ish history of Flight! Ancient Times Since we only have a patchy record of ancient flights, these are my guesses on what they must have been like. The Bird-Man Mankind (kerbalkind?)'s first attempt at flight. Needless to say, none of them were succesful. The Montgolfier Brothers roughly 1782 The earliest recorded balloon flights. At this stage none of them were manned. The Earlist Paratroopers 1617 This is very much a VIP, and it's not complete, but I have to go to bed now. I'm gonna edit this tommorow.