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Chinese used explosive powder for
religious festivals
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Fill bamboo tubes with this powder and
attached them to arrows "fire arrows”
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Repelled the Mongol invaders
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Sir Isaac Newton
› British Scientist
› three scientific laws
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Col. William Congreve, British artillery expert
› Used a more scientific approach to rockets
 Spin stabilization
› Increased rocket’s range
› Battle of Copenhagen 1807
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Konrad Kyeser von Eichstadt
› Rocket propelled by gunpowder (1405)
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France rockets against the British in 1429- 1449
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Wars
› Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
› War of 1812
Had a hearing impairment
Met Nikolai Fedorov
He wrote on “Free Space”: Vacuum,
Weightless – Dangers
Became a Mathematics teacher
In 1903, "The Exploration of the World Space with Jet
propulsion Instruments" . (Proposal for Space Exploration)
- Liquid fuel engines/Thrust vs. Weight/Multi-Stage
- Used on rockets today
Inspired by Jules Verne
“Earth to the Moon”
By age 14, theorized a Recoil rocket
Wrote the book:
“The Rocket into Planetary Space”
Covered: rocket's fuel consumption, fuel handling
hazards, the dangers of working with solid propellants
and the possible hazards to humans.
Worked together with Werner von Braun (V-2 Program)
Later worked for the US Army Missile Agency
Father of practical modern rocketry
Clark University and majored in the science
Built a successful liquid-fuel controlled rocket;
launched on March 16, 1926 at Worcester, Mass.
- Developed Fuel feeding devices,
propellant pumps, gyroscopic stabilizers, and
instruments for monitoring the flight
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Most important figures in the advancement
of space exploration in aerospace history.
- Great follower of Hermann Oberth
- Team leader of a group that developed
the V-2 ballistic missile for Nazis German
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He became the chief architect of the
Saturn V launch vehicle that propelled
American astronauts to the moon.
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What Make A Rockets Launching - Bing
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