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Sep 15, 1232
Battle of Kaifung-fu
Battle of Kaifung-fu in 1232 represents the first reported use of a gunpowder-fueled rocket in warfare. -
Sep 15, 1249
Batttle of Damietta
in 1249, Arab troops used rockets in their unsuccessful attempt to thwart invading Crusader troops under Louis IX of France, during the battle of Damietta. -
Kazimierz Siemienowicz Rockets
Kazimierz Siemienowicz wrote a manuscript on a design for multistage rockets that was to become a fundamental rocket technology for rockets heading for outer space. -
South Asian Weapons
During the late 18th century, the gunpowder rocket served as an important weapon in South Asia,. -
British Rockets; War of 1812
The British used military rockets during the the War of 1812. The British attacked Fort Mchenry with a bombardment of rockets. -
Ship Aiding Rocket
John Dennet developed a rocket that would carry a rescue line to ships in distress. -
Stabalized Fins Rocket
William Hale developed a rocket stabilized by fins that was later used in the Mexican- Ameican War -
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Robert Hutchings Goddard is known as "the father of rocketry" after World War 1 he started developing rockets as a weapon. -
Major Yuri Gagarin Manned Space Flight
Major Yuri Gagarin ,a Soviet cosmonaut, began the age of manned space flight when he orbited the earth once. -
Space Shuttle
The United States began developing the space shuttle—a rocket-powered vehicle capable of lifting off going into orbit around the earth, and then returning to earth to land like an airplane. -
Ariane Rockets
The European Space Agency developed a commercial satellite-launching program for its Ariane rockets. -
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky Liquid Fuelded Rocket
A Russian writer and teacher, Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, began the suggesting of theroies for the liquid fueled rocket. -
SpaceShipOne
SpaceShipOne became the first space vehicle to climb above an altitude of 100 kilometers twice in a fourteen-day period. -
Titan Rockets
The Titan rockets were used for launching the Gemini
missions found wide use in launching unmanned payloads. -
NASA's Rockets
NASA's space shuttle program used solid rockets for the first time to boost humans into space.
