V0.2 - 17-04-2020
Timeline
- 1617 - Faust Vrancic makes the first jump from a tower in Venice
- 1785 - First jump by a dog
- 1790 - The linen is replaced with silk
- 1793 - First human jump by Jean-Pierre Blanchard after his hot air balloon failed (no witnesses)
- 1797 - Andrew Garnerin does the first jump without a rigid frame, also the first usage of a vent hole.
- 1837 - Robert Cocking becomes the first person to die in a parachute accident
- 1887 - Captain Thomas Baldwin invents the parachute harness
- 1890 - First folded parachute into a soft backpack (knapsack) and first deployment by pilot chute.
- 1911 - Grant Morton and Captain Albert Berry parachute from an aeroplane
- 1912 - First demonstration of a drogue chute by Gleb Kotelnikov
- 1914 - First (unintentional) free fall by Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick
- 1919- First (intentional) free fall by Leslie Irvin
- 1918 - First combat jump by Italy
- 1927 - First drop behind enemy lines
- 1937 - First aeroplane landing using a break or drogue chute
Space missions
- 1953 - First dog in orbit
- 1959 - First hard landing on the moon (Luna 2)
- 1960 August 18 - First satellite recovered from orbit (Discoverer 13)
- 1960 August 19 - First animals recovered from space
- 1961 April 12 - First human in orbit (Gagarin)
- 1966 February 3 - First soft landing on another celestial body (Luna 9)
Planetary landers
- 1959 September - First hard landing on the moon (Luna 2)
- 1956 February - First soft landing on the moon (Luna 9)
- 1966 March - First hard landing on another planet (Venera 3)
- 1970 September - First sample return mission (Luna 16)
- 1970 December - First soft landing on another planet (Venera 7)
- 1971 November - First hard landing on Mars (Mars 2)
- 1971 December - First soft landing on Mars (Mars 3)
- 2005 January - First landing on the moon of an outer world (Huygens)
