Editing Flight (section)

=== Spaceflight ===
{{Main|History of spaceflight}}
Spaceflight, particularly [[human spaceflight]] became a reality in the 20th century following theoretical and practical breakthroughs by [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]] and [[Robert H. Goddard]]. The [[Sputnik 1|first orbital spaceflight]] was in 1957,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/sputorig.html|title = Sputnik and the Origins of the Space Age}}</ref> and [[Yuri Gagarin]] was carried aboard the first crewed orbital spaceflight in 1961.<ref>[http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/sts1/gagarin_anniversary.html "Gagarin anniversary."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405064118/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/sts1/gagarin_anniversary.html |date=2013-04-05 }} ''NASA''. Retrieved: May 6, 2012.</ref>