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Archytas, a Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer was said to have constructed and flown a small bird-shaped device that was propelled by a jet of steam or compressed air. The ‘bird’ may have been suspended by a wire or mounted at the end of a bar that revolved around some sort of pivot. This was the first reported devicet o use rocket propulsion.
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First rocket was invented in China in 1100 AD. Used solid propellants and mainly used for fireworks and weapons.
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A monk, Roger Bacon, had wrote about a mixture that greatly developed improved gunpowder.
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Galileo, an Italian astronomer and mathemetician, created "inertia", a property of matter
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An English Scientist, SIr Isaac Newton, created three laws of motion, in 1642, that provided foundation for all modern rocket science.
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William Congreve took charge of British military rocket companies. Some of his designs had operational ranges of 6,000 yards. He created both case-shot rockets that sprayed the enemy with carbine balls and incendiary rockets for burning ships and buildings. He invented launching rockets from ships.
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In 1780, The indians used rockets in the battle of Polluir.
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Jules Verne, A science fiction writer, brought the idea of traveling through space to life. In his De la Terre á la Lune, Verne used a giant cannon to fire a manned projectile at the Moon.
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Konstantin Tsiolkovski was a teacher, theorist, and astronautics pioneer. He wrote and taught extensively about human space travel and is considered the father of cosmonautics and human spaceflight.
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American college professor and scientist Robert Goddard built
and flew the world’s first liquid propellant rocket on March 16,
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(10) Though not a rocket, the main principle behind rocket propulsion was employed in a steam engine invented by Hero of Alexandria. The exact appearance of Hero’s engine is not known, but it consisted of some sort of copper vessel heated by a fire beneath. The Hero engine was seen as an amusing toy, and its potential was not realized for a thousand years.
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In 1935, Goddard fires an advanced liquid rocket that reaches 700 miles an hour.
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At the conclusion of World War II, the United States and the Soviet
Union engaged in a race for space. The Soviet Union won the first
round by launching its Sputnik I satellite on October 4, 1957. The
satellite had a spherical design with four antenna. It weighed 83.6
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The Soviet Union launched two dogs into the earth orbit.
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A new period of cooperation between the united states and the soviet union was established in the 1970's.
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SpaceShipOne became the first private space vehicle to climb above an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 miles) twice in a fourteen-day period.
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The first space shuttle flight took place in 1981 and the last of its 135 missions concluded in 2011.
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omponents from previous rockets is being used to build a heavy-lift rocket for development testing from 2017 to 2021. It will lift up to 70 tons of payload.
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Valentina Tereshkova Was the first woman to go into space, entering the orbit.
