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The Chinese were the first to use gunpowder rockets in battle to defeat enemys such as the Mongols.
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The Congreve rockets, during the attack on Fort Henry, were the insperation for Francis Scott Key's lyric in the American Nation Anthem.
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British artillery officer William Congreve developed over 25,000 rockets for military use were made in the nineteenth century. The rockets were called Congreve Rockets.
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John Dennet was an English inventor that patented a rocket that would carry a rescue line to ships in distress.
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William Hale designed a solid-fuled rocket that was used in the Mexican War.
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De la terre á la lune (From the Earth to the Moon) was a fictional book written by Jules Verne about a mission to the moon on a rocket. The physics were not exactly correct but the idea in that time was fenominal.
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A Soviet named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky started working on the theory for rocket space flight.
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Robert H. Goddhard showed a practiacal way to lift rockets and objects into space using rockets.
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The first V-2 rocket was launched by the germans
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The Rocketdyne F-1 was developed and used in the first-stage of the Saturn V. It retains the title of most powerful single-combustion-chamber, liquid propellent rocket.
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The first artificial satellite, Sputnik was launched into orbit by the Soviets. It was about the size of a beach ball.
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The Apollo 7 was launched with the help of the Saturn B1
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The Ariane 1 first flew in December of 1979. It was created by the European Space Agency (ESA).
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The Endeavour was finished by the United Startes in 1991
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The maiden flight of Atlas V was launched on August 21, 2002.
