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200 B.C.
THe CHinese mastered the technic of making and using gunpowder, which will later be used in guns and rockets -
Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches from the late fifteenth century were the predecessor to the modern day flying machine.
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Isaac Newton discovered the law of physical motion and the three scientific laws. These expressed the movement of objects.
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Th Indian troops made war rockets when fighting against the Britsh.
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Sailors hunted whailes using rocket propelled harpoons.
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The British introduced hail rockets
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The first liquid fuel rocket is made.
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Wilbur and Orville created the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the first fully practical airplane.
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V-2 Blossom launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico carrying Albert I, a rhesus monkey
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Soviet R-1 series rockets carried nine dogs
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Back in the U.S., on April 23, 1958 a mouse was launched in a Thor-Able "Reentry 1" test as the first launch in the Mouse in Able (MIA) project.
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On January 31, 1961, Ham, whose name was an acronym for H olloman A ero M ed, became the first chimpanzee in space, aboard the Mercury Redstone rocket on a sub-orbital flight very similar to Alan Shepard's.
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Sometine in August.
The Shuttle crew (STS-106/2A.2b) delivers supplies, re-boosts and repairs the International Space Station. -
March 1: NASA launched Space Shuttle Columbia to begin the STS-109 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope by adding new instruments and boosting it to a higher orbit.
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Oct. 30: Russia introduces the Soyuz TMA spacecraft, launching a taxi crew to the ISS, which included an ESA researcher from Belgium.