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The first man on a rocket ATTEMPT was a chinese man
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The first book on rockets was a about Pyrotechnics. It described the use of them in warfare and in festivals
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His famous quote was "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" in Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles Of Natural Philosophy)
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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.
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Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy published Gryozy o zemie i nebe
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Robert Goddard developed theory of rocket polusion and flew first liquid fueled rocket
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Wernher Braun developed the ballistic missile
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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev co-founded the Moscow rocketry organization
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delivery of First Titan in June 1958
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First human spaceflight program. It was created by NASA
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February 2000, NASA flew mission called SRTM, for Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), with Italian and German participation
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2002, European Space Agency launched a large environmental monitoring satellite named Envisat
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- EUMETSAT and ESA cooperated on the production of a completely new system to take over and significantly improve the operational service by 2003
