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Grove, Tim, 1967- author.

Milestones of flight : from hot-air balloons to SpaceShipOne / Tim Grove.

New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, [2016]

vii, 103 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

"This book is being published in association with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The museum will celebrate its 40th anniversary in July 2016. There will be a new Smithsonian exhibition, to be called Milestones of Flight. This book is not a catalog of the exhibition; rather, it is a history of flight told through approximately twenty-five historical milestones"-- Provided by publisher.

Aeronautics -- History -- Chronology -- Juvenile literature.

Astronautics -- History -- Chronology -- Juvenile literature.

Flight -- Juvenile literature.

Airplanes -- Juvenile literature.

Space flights -- Juvenile literature.

National Air and Space Museum.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 98-99) and index.

Ballooning -- Wright Flyer -- Curtiss JN-4, the "Jenny" -- Douglas World Cruiser -- Goddard rocket -- Spirit of St. Louis -- Full scale wind tunnel -- Douglas DC-3 -- UAVs -- Bell XP-59A Airacomet, Whittle and Jumo 004 engines -- Bell X-1, Glamorous Glennis -- Boeing 367-80, "Dash 80" -- Sputnik 1 and Explorer 1 -- North American X-15 -- Discoverer/Corona -- Telstar -- Mercury Friendship 7 -- Mariner 2 -- Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird -- Gemini IV -- Imagination and the Star Trek Starship Enterprise -- Lunar Module and touchable moon rock -- Pioneer 10/11 -- Viking Lander -- Space Shuttle Discovery -- Hubble Space Telescope -- SpaceShipOne.

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