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1 CE
First steam engine
In the first century Heron of Alexandria created the first steam engine. it worked by pressurising the air inside a small sphere using steam and sending the air out of two holes making it spin -
1200
First rocket
In the 13th century the Chinese created the first rockets using gunpowder as a fuel. They were mainly used for fire works and explosives. -
1500
Galileo's ideas about motion.
Galileo discovered that motion must be caused by force and thus must be stopped by force. -
Isaac Newtons Laws of motion
Isaac newton created 3 laws of motion that explained how things move. these laws revolutionised how we think of the world and contributed to rockets greatly. -
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
He designed the first liquid power rocket. -
Robert Godard
Created the first liquid powered rocket -
V2 Rocket
In world War 2 Germany created the vengeance or V1 and V2 rockets. these were designed by Von Braun and were fired at Britain to create panic -
First men in space
The Russians were the first to send a man into space. he complete a whole orbit of the earth before coming back down to earth safley -
First man on the moon
In 1969 Americans sent the first people to the moon on the Saturn V and Apollo XI. it took them three days to get to the moon and once they landed the module only had 30 seconds of fuel left. -
The Space Shuttle
The space shuttle was revolutionary for its time because it was the first reusable form of space travel. Where earlier rockets had a landing capsule which was the only part of the rocket that survived the space shuttle can land horizontally on a runway and be flown again