2010 Event Tibet's Galongla Tunnel, built at an altitude of 3,750 meters, is completed, linking Medog county to the outside world 2010 Event Scientists working near Kokoda, Papua New Guinea uncover world's oldest known high altitude human settlement, estimated to be 49,000 years old 1991 Event Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude 1985 Event Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor 1980 Event Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m) 1977 Event Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km (125,524') 1963 Event Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km 1962 Event Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft) 1961 Event Lieutenant Colonel Gueorgui Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 m altitude 1959 Event J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513m 1958 Event Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m 1957 Event USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m) 1956 Event Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+ 1954 Event 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM 1948 Event John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m)) 1946 Event 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico 1942 Event Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km) 1935 Event Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD 1933 Event 1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m) 1911 Event Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft) 1910 Event Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record) 1910 Event Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude 1909 Event Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m 1909 Event AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m 1783 Event 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
