| artifact | year | milestone
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| 1903 Wright Flyer | 1903 | First successful airplane.
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| Goddard Rockets | 1926 | First Successful Liquid-Propellant Rocket Ryan NYP
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| "Spirit of St. Louis" | 1927 | First solo transatlantic flight.
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| Bell XP-59A Airacomet | 1942 | First American Turbojet.
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| Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis" | 1947 | First aircraft to travel the speed of sound.
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| Sputnik 1 | 1957 | First artificial satellite.
Explorer 1 1958 First successful United States satellite.
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| Mariner 2 | 1962 | First interplanetary probe.
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| Mercury "Friendship 7" | 1962 | First American in Earth orbit.
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| Gemini IV | 1965 | First American spacewalk.
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| North American X-15 | 1967 | First hypersonic, high altitude aircraft.
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| Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia" | 1969 | First manned Lunar landing.
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| Lunar "Touchrock" | 1972 | Apollo 17 Lunar basalt.
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| Viking Lander | 1976 | First spacecraft to operate on Mars.
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| Pioneer 10 | 1983 | First spacecraft to leave our Solar System.
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| Pershing-II & SS-20 Missiles | 1987 | First Int'l effort to control nuclear arms.
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| Breitling Orbiter 3 Gondola | 1999 | First Nonstop Flight Around The World by Balloon.
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| SpaceShipOne | 2004 | First privately developed, piloted vehicle to reach space.
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