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Solid-fuel rockets
also called rocket motors, have been used since the 1200s to launch fireworks and small millitary rockets -
Liquid-fuel rocket
A liquid-fuel rocket is a rocket engine that uses liquid propellants. It was invented in 1926 by Robert Goddard -
V-2 ballistic missile
German researchers designed and built the V-2, one of the first modern rockets, under the leadership of Wernher Von Braun -
Sputnik 2
Less than a month after Sputnik 1, a dog was lauched aboard satellite Sputnik 2, becoming the first living creature to orbit the earth -
Sputnik 1
The first artificial object to orbit the earth -
Explorer 1
United States fist satellite -
Vostok 1
Yuri Gagarin became the first person to travel in space in the Vostok 1 spacecraft -
Freedom 7
Alan Shepard became America's first person in space in the Freedom 7 -
Friendship 7
John Glenn became the fisrt american to orbit the earth in Friendship 7 mercury spacecraft -
Vostok 6
Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space in Vostock 6 -
Apollo 11
land a spacecraft on the moon, Columbia orbited the moon and Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon -
Skylab
The United States launched its first space station, Skylab -
Space Shuttle
Was a new type of spacecraft and the first reusable spacecraft -
Challenger
The challenger was detroyed by an accident shortly after launch
