Iconic Air & Space
Compare your age to 12 aviation and space milestones from 1783 to 1990, from balloon flight to Hubble.
Your birth year
2006
First Hot Air Balloon Flight
1783 · 223 yrs before you
Wright Flyer
1903 · 103 yrs before you
Spirit of St. Louis
1927 · 79 yrs before you
Amelia Earhart Solo Atlantic Flight
1932 · 74 yrs before you
First Jet Aircraft
1939 · 67 yrs before you
Bell X-1 Breaks the Sound Barrier
1947 · 59 yrs before you
Sputnik 1
1957 · 49 yrs before you
Yuri Gagarin Orbits Earth
1961 · 45 yrs before you
John Glenn Orbits Earth
1962 · 44 yrs before you
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
1969 · 37 yrs before you
Space Shuttle Columbia
1981 · 25 yrs before you
Hubble Space Telescope
1990 · 16 yrs before you