HISTORY OF ROCKETS

By thisguycool
  • The First Rockets
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    The First Rockets

    The first rockets were at 1225 -- 255 BC was when the rockets were widely used in the battle. they were simply a tube of gunpowder open at the end. so when the gunpowder explodes it creats a negative force for liftoff. chinese and Korean rockets
  • First liquid propelled rocket
    Nov 17, 1300

    First liquid propelled rocket

    It was made by Robert Goddard, it is propelled by diesel fuel.
  • Metal-cylinder rocket artillery

    Metal-cylinder rocket artillery

    now rockets are not just a tube open at the end.the are made of iron and are more powerful. and more widely used in 1792.this rocket was still propelled by gunpowder or blackpowder.

  • Pre - WW1

    Now rockets use a combustion engine. and would break the sound barrier.
  • WWI & WWII 1914 -- 1945

    WWI & WWII 1914 -- 1945

    lots of V-2 rockets were fired from germany (Nazi) to bomb london, and killed hundred thousand of people.

  • The Space Race SR

    Yuri GagarinThe space race was started by the cold war,America,U.S.S.R. and numbers of other countrys wanted to go to the space. Yuri Gagarin was the first one in space. Then the americans went to the moon, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and,Michael Collins

  • China goes to the moon

    2010 China sent a rocket to the Moon