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The Chinese were the first to discover gunpowder, and saw the obvious advantage of them in battle. They made gunpowder rockets to use as defense on the battlefield.
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British inventor William Hale creates a new rocket that spurs on the discovery of many other rocket-technologies.
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America first started to use military rockets during the Mexican American war.
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Before the beginning of WWI Nikolaus Otto invents the Combustion engine which uses combustible fuel. This leads to rockets first breaking the sound barrier.
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Wernher Von Braun developed this rocket during WWII (1942). It used a mixture of Oxygen and Alcohol for its fuel.
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These missiles were developed by captured German scientists for the Americans. The fuel can be either solid or liquid.
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It was created by a country called OKB-1, the rocket itself was known as the Luna 8K72. It used Sodium Gas fuel.
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Used the Atlas Agena Rocket to achieve flight. The Atlas Rockets were created by Convair General Dynamics. The Atlas uses RP-1 fuel.
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The success of the Saturn V rocket is highlighted during the Apollo 11 expedition when America lands its first man on the moon.
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The first ever Rocket Failure resulting in the death of astronauts occurred on this day. The rocket fuel began to leak and exploded killing all astronauts on board.
