Rockets

1st Man On Rocket

Aug 17, 1500

The first man on a rocket ATTEMPT was a chinese man

First Book On Rockets

Jul 24, 1540

The first book on rockets was a about Pyrotechnics. It described the use of them in warfare and in festivals

Isaac Newton Laws of Motion

Jan 9, 1687

His famous quote was "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" in Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles Of Natural Philosophy)

French Lead Rocketry In Battle

Nov 19, 1725

Throughout most of the 18th century, the French led the world in the production of rockets. Most of these were used as fireworks, but some were used as explosive war rockets.

Gryozy o zemie i nebe

Sep 21, 1895

Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy published Gryozy o zemie i nebe

Rockert Polusion

Aug 13, 1912

Robert Goddard developed theory of rocket polusion and flew first liquid fueled rocket

Ballistic Missile

Sep 15, 1914

Wernher Braun developed the ballistic missile

Early Soviet Rockets

Sep 9, 1930

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev co-founded the Moscow rocketry organization

First Titan

Sep 21, 1958

delivery of First Titan in June 1958

Project Mercury

Dec 17, 1958

First human spaceflight program. It was created by NASA

SRTM

Feb 21, 2000

February 2000, NASA flew mission called SRTM, for Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), with Italian and German participation

enviro monitoring satellite

Sep 21, 2002

2002, European Space Agency launched a large environmental monitoring satellite named Envisat

EUMETSAT and ESA

Sep 21, 2003

• EUMETSAT and ESA cooperated on the production of a completely new system to take over and significantly improve the operational service by 2003