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Battle of Kaifung-fu in 1232 represents the first reported use of a gunpowder-fueled rocket in warfare.
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in 1249, Arab troops used rockets in their unsuccessful attempt to thwart invading Crusader troops under Louis IX of France, during the battle of Damietta.
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Kazimierz Siemienowicz wrote a manuscript on a design for multistage rockets that was to become a fundamental rocket technology for rockets heading for outer space.
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During the late 18th century, the gunpowder rocket served as an important weapon in South Asia,.
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The British used military rockets during the the War of 1812. The British attacked Fort Mchenry with a bombardment of rockets.
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John Dennet developed a rocket that would carry a rescue line to ships in distress.
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William Hale developed a rocket stabilized by fins that was later used in the Mexican- Ameican War
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Robert Hutchings Goddard is known as "the father of rocketry" after World War 1 he started developing rockets as a weapon.
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Major Yuri Gagarin ,a Soviet cosmonaut, began the age of manned space flight when he orbited the earth once.
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The United States began developing the space shuttle—a rocket-powered vehicle capable of lifting off going into orbit around the earth, and then returning to earth to land like an airplane.
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The European Space Agency developed a commercial satellite-launching program for its Ariane rockets.
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A Russian writer and teacher, Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, began the suggesting of theroies for the liquid fueled rocket.
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SpaceShipOne became the first space vehicle to climb above an altitude of 100 kilometers twice in a fourteen-day period.
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The Titan rockets were used for launching the Gemini
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NASA's space shuttle program used solid rockets for the first time to boost humans into space.
