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Jan 1, 1232
Chinese Fire Arrows
The Chinese created the first rockets by chance. They attached a tube full of gunpowder to a bamboo and lit it for a religious festival. Because of that, it gave them the idea to attach that to an arrow instead of bamboo. Henceforth, Rockets were born.
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/TRC/Rockets/history_of_rockets.html
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Kazimierz Siemienowicz changed the view of rockets.
He was a Polish-Lithuanian commander in the Polish Royal Artillery. He suggested some ideas that changed the view on rockets. For example, he thought that batteries should be used for military rocket launching and that the delta-wing stabilizers should be replaced by the guiding rods that were normally used.
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/153410main_Rockets_History.pdf
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Robert H. Goddard "Father of modern rocket"
Goddard built and flew the world’s first propellant rocket. Although his flight was uneventful, it became the precursor to the Saturn V Moon rocket. He was the first scientist to realized the potentialities of both missiles and space rocket. He is know as " Father of modern rocket"
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/history/dr_goddard.html
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Vergeltungswaffe 2 - V2, the German rocket.
Created by the German Verein fur Raumschiff Art Society for Space Travel,it was the first rocket built by alcohol and liquid oxygen. Thousand were made and it was Nazi German's second terror weapon, but they were too late to affect world was II. It was first object launched into the space.
http://fly.historicwings.com/2012/09/vergeltungswaffe-2/
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The Explorer 1, First time United Staes entered into space world.
It was launched on 31st January and this is when United States entered into satellite-launching business. The rocket was small only weigh 13.95 kg. It took 114.8 minutes to make one orbit around the looping earth.
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Smaller Saturn
It was launched between 1966 and 1973, 13 times from Kennedy space center, Florida. The Saturn V rocket was capable of launching 117,900 kilometers into low earth orbit and 40,800 to the moon. The Saturn IB was 68 meters (224 feet) tall
and required a scaffold platform nicknamed the “milk stool” to be
placed on the pad designed for Saturn V rockets.
http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/vintage-space/brief-story-saturn-ib-rocket
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"America's Moon Rocket"
The actually name of moon rocket was “Saturn V”, made by NASA after accepting the challenge from President John F. Kennedy to send an American to moon and come back safely. A total of 13 Saturn rocket were launched from 1967 until 1973 carrying Apollo missiles and also space station satellite.
http://www.space.com/18422-apollo-saturn-v-moon-rocket-nasa-infographic.html
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Space Tourism
On October 4, 2004, SpaceShipOne became first private vehicle to cross the an altitude of 100 kilometers twice in fourteen day period. Launched by a mother ship, it allowed tourists and scientists to adventure into space.
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/153410main_Rockets_History.pdf
