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History of Rockets Timeline

By LHeffron69
  • Chinese Fire Arrows
    Mar 28, 1232

    Chinese Fire Arrows

    The Chinese were the first to invent a basic rocket, using gunpowder as the fuel.
  • First Multistage Rockets

    First Multistage Rockets

    Johann Schmidlap invents the first multistage rocket that increases the average altitude of rocket flight.
  • Rocket use to capture the attention of the British

    Rocket use to capture the attention of the British

    Indians use rockets in order to gain the attention of the British which then inspires the British to begin using rockets in their military campaigns from now on.
  • Space Exploration is Proposed using Rockets

    Space Exploration is Proposed using Rockets

    Konstantin Tsiokovsky, a Russian Schoolteacher proposes that we should use rockets in order to get to space.
  • First Liquid Fueled Rocket Flight

    First Liquid Fueled Rocket Flight

    American Robert H Goddard successfully launches a rocket powered by liquid oxygen and gasoline. He uses this to begin building bigger and better rockets.
  • V-2 Rockets

    V-2 Rockets

    The first long range Ballistic Missiles developed by Wernher Von Braun during the Second World War. The fuel used is oxygen and alcohol.
  • US Space Program Creates Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

    US Space Program Creates Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

    Throughout the 1950's the US Defense Program created varieties of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles such as Redstone, Atlas, and Titan.
  • Explorer 1

    Explorer 1

    New Zealander Sir William Pickering, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, launchers Explorer 1 into space, carrying Americas first satellite.
  • Spacex launch of Falcon 9

    Spacex launch of Falcon 9

    The Falcon 9 was created by Spacex in the United States. Lox RP-1 is the kind of fuel that was sued in this rocket.
  • Juno

    Juno

    Released by NASA/JPL, Juno set off to orbit Jupiter and used Nitrogen Tetroxide as fuel.