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The Rockets "Invention"
400 B.c. The first rocket purpolsion came to be , The Greek, Hero of Alexandria, invented a rocket-like device called an aeolipile. It, used steam as a propulsive gas. -
Apr 19, 1232
The first actual Rocket
The date reporting the first use of a true rockets was in 1232. Chinese and the Mongols were at war with each other. During the battle of Kai-Keng, the Chinese repelled the Mongol invaders by a barrage of "arrows of flying fire." These fire-arrows were a simple form of a solid-propellant rocket. -
Nov 5, 1500
Wan-Hu
Wan-Hu was a chinese oficial that strapped manny rockets to his chair and saposedly he went to the great beyond and that is why the far side of the moon is named after him. -
ENGLAND
The rocket seems to have arrived in Europe around 1241 A.D.
Contemporary accounts describe rocket-like weapons being used by the
Mongols against Magyar forces at the battle of Sejo which preceded
their capture of Buda (now known as Budapest) Dec. 25, 1241. Accounts
also describe Mongol's use of a noxious smoke screen -- possibly the
first instance of chemical warfare. -
Sir William Congreve
The initial inspiration for Congreve rockets is uncertain. They may have been developed from Indian rocket artillery (Cushoon) made from iron tubes. Mysorean rockets were used against the British East India Company by the armies of Tipu Sultan and his father, Hyder Ali, rulers of the kingdom of Mysore in India, during the Battle of Pollilur in 1781. An alternative suggestion is that Congreve adapted iron-cased gunpowder rockets for use by the British military from prototypes created by the Irish -
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
After falling behind in his studies, Tsiolkovsky spent three years attending a library where Russian cosmism proponent Nikolai Fyodorov worked. He later came to believe that colonizing space would lead to the perfection of the human race, with immortality and a carefree existence.
Additionally, inspired by the fiction of Jules Verne, Tsiolkovsky theorized many aspects of space travel and rocket propulsion. He is considered the father of spaceflight and the first person to conceive the space. -
Robert Goddard
An American who is now called "the father of modern rocketry"
By contrast to Tsiolkovsky, Goddard was the man who designed, built, and flew the rockets. He was a professor at Clarke University who also developed the theory of rocketry and although he didn't know about Tsiolkovsky's work, reached the same conclusions as Tsiolkovsky did. Goddard proved the theory was true.
He was also heavily influenced by the science fiction of Jules Verne, and he worked hard to develop rockets because he wante -
Hermann Oberth
In parts of 1928 and 1929, Oberth also worked in Berlin, Germany as a scientific consultant on the first film ever to have scenes set in outer space, Frau im Mond ("The Woman in the Moon"), which was directed and produced by the great film pioneer Fritz Lang at the Universum Film AG company. This film was of enormous value in popularizing the ideas of rocketry and space exploration. One of Oberth's main assignments was to build and launch a rocket as a publicity event just before the film's prem -
Wernher Von Braun
Von Braun was working on his creative doctorate when the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP, or Nazi party) came to power in a coalition government in Germany; rocketry almost immediately became part of the national agenda. An artillery captain, Walter Dornberger, arranged an Ordnance Department research grant for Von Braun, who then worked next to Dornberger's existing solid-fuel rocket test site at Kummersdorf. He was awarded a doctorate in physics (aerospace engineering) -
OLd books about space exploration and rockets
1922 first Soviet science fiction novels . life suits the Martian colonists for further space exploration. Started around the cold war when rockets were a big deal. -
Leader of rocket design in early 90's
The Germans were the first ones to make actual rockets. The V-2 was the first real 'rocket" durring the World War many German scientist were hunted to be captuerd and used in soviet and allied rocket programs. -
Vergeltungswaffe-2 (retrabution weapon 2)
After Hitler's 29 August 1944 declaration to begin V-2 attacks as soon as possible, the offensive began on 8 September 1944 with a single launch at Paris, which caused modest damage near Porte d'Italie,:218,220,467. Two more launches by the 485th followed, including one from The Hague against London on the same day at 6:43 p.m.:285 – the first landed at Chiswick, killing 63-year-old Mrs. Ada Harrison, 3-year-old Rosemary Clarke, and Sapper Bernard Browning on leave from the Royal Enginee -
Satellite-1 Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was launched during the International Geophysical Year from Site No.1/5, at the 5th Tyuratam range, in Kazakh SSR (now at the Baikonur Cosmodrome). The satellite travelled at about 29,000 kilometers (18,000 mi) per hour, taking 96.2 minutes to complete each orbit. It transmitted on 20.005 and 40.002 MHz which were monitored by amateur radio operators throughout the world.The signals continued for 22 days until the transmitter batteries ran out on 26 October 1957. Sputnik 1 bu -
The Explorer program
The Explorer program is a United States space exploration program that provides flight opportunities for physics, heliophysics, and astrophysics investigations from space.[1] Over 90 space missions have been launched from 1958 to 2011, and it is still active. Starting with Explorer 6, it has been a NASA program, and they have worked with a variety of other institutions and business, including many international collaborations. Currently, the major subprograms are Small Explorer program (SMEX) an -
Liquid Fuel Rocket
A liquid-propellant rocket or a liquid rocket is a rocket engine that uses propellants in liquid form. Liquids are desirable because their reasonably high density allows the volume of the propellant tanks to be relatively low, and it is possible to use lightweight pumps to pump the propellant from the tanks into the engines, which means that the propellants can be kept under low pressure. This permits the use of low mass propellant tanks, permitting a high mass ratio for the rocket.
Liquid rock
