Today, airplanes take us from here to there in the air. But back in 1783, traveling by balloon became the big thing. That’s when the Montgolfier brothers made a hot air balloon out of paper and silk in Paris and took the first free flight carrying a human. The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum […]
Today, airplanes take us from here to there in the air. But back in 1783, traveling by balloon became the big thing. That’s when the Montgolfier brothers made a hot air balloon out of paper and silk in Paris and took the first free flight carrying a human. The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum […]