History of Rockets

By JoelSinclair
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    Gunpowder invented

  • 1232

    Chinese invent Rockets

    The First True Rocket is invented
  • 1500

    Staged Rocket

    First Multistage rocket invented by German Firework Maker, Johann Schmidlap.

  • Rocketry Becomes A Science

    Scientific foundations by Sir Issac Newton allowed for rocketry to become Scientific

  • Idea of Space Exploration by Rocket Proposed

    Russian teacher, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposed the idea of space exploration by rocket

  • V-2 Rockets

    The V-2 Rockets are successfully launched by Germany during the second world war

  • Sputnik Launched

    Sputnik launched by the Soviet Union

  • Explorer 1 Launched

    U.S. launched their first Satellite

  • First Man In Space

    Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, he achieved 1 orbit of Earth

  • First American to Orbit Earth

    John Glenn is the first American to orbit earth, he completed 3 orbits of Earth

  • Apollo 1 Tragedy

    During a pre-flight test for Apollo 1 a malfunction occurred, starting a fire which killed the entire flight crew.

  • First Man on the Moon

    Neil Armstrong, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin landed on the moon while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit.

  • First Space Station Launched

    Salyut 1 is launched by the Soviet Union

  • First American Space Station Launched

    The United States launches its first space station, Skylab

  • Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

    The American Apollo 18 and the Soviet Soyuz 19 dock with each other whilst in orbit.

  • Voyager 1 and 2 Launched

    The Voyager probes are launched and perform flyby missions of all of the gas giants

  • First Space Shuttle Lauched

    Columbia became the first Space Shuttle to be launched

  • The Challenger Disaster

    The Challenger Shuttle broke apart 73 seconds into it's flight, killing all seven crew members, namely Christa McAuliffe, a teacher from New Hampshire

  • First probe in Interstellar Space

    Voyager 1 becomes the first probe to enter interstellar space