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Fung fu used rocket fire arrows in battle
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Wan Hu concived idea of flying in the air
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While the use of the gunpowder rocket as a weapon declined in 16th- and 17th-century Europe due to improvements in cannon technology, the application of the rocket in fireworks (that is, festive devices called sky rockets) continued to evolve into a highly refined technical art.
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Dutch professor, Willem Gravesande, built model cars propelled by jets of steam.
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John Dennet patented a rocket that would carry a rescue line to ships and distress.
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William Hale devised a rocket stabilized by fins. Was used in mexican war.
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Liquid fuel rockets were 1st seriously purposed in the late 19th century, by a Russian writter and teacher, Konstantine. Tsiolkovsky.
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By the beginning of the 20th century rockets remained more a matter of polite speculation than a widely accepted technology.
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Developed a high-speed automated machine for manufacturing solid model rocket motors for MMI
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Estes began marketing model rocket kits
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The 1st ion engine rocket was tested succesfully in 1964.
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werner van bruan designed the first rocket that put a satelitte into space
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SpaceShipOne, became the first private
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On July 13, 2011 spaceX began construction of a launch site at vandenburg airforce space in California with hopes to reach the ISS by 2012.
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The first space shuttle flight took the last of it's 135 missions
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The 1st commercial suborbital flight was schedualed some time in 2013. It launches 18km (11mi) above earth.
