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Rockets are invented in 1232 in China
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Europeans first saw and are exposed to rockets by Mongol invaders. The name "rockets" come from Italian word "rochetta" which means little fuse.
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The legend of Wan Hu is that he tried to use rockets to launch himself into space. He built a chair with rockets attached. As the story goes, when he lit the rockets after the smoke cleared him or his chair were not there.
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Sir Isaac Newton explained how rockets work in the vacuum of outer space
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Newton's three laws of motion apply to the rocket
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Designed the congreve rocket, a British military weapon, in 1804
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As the trailblazer of the entire genre of science fiction, Jules Verne wrote about rockets in his novel "From the Earth to the Moon"
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Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposed idea if rockets for space exploration
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Designed and built the world's first liquid-fueled rocket which launched on March 16, 1926.
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Hermann Oberth published a book about travel into outer space, due to these writings rocket societies sprang up. For example the German Society for Space Travel.
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Designed by Wernher Von Braun. It is also known as the Claudia Rocket. The V-2 rocket is liquid propellant and the world's first long-range combat-ballistic missile. First human made object to enter outer space. Created for Nazi Germany used in WWII 1942-44 launched at London.
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First artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in October, it travelled 29,000 kilometers an hour. It burned up in January the following year. Soviet Union proved to be the leader in space exploration.
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First artificial Earth satellite launched by U.S. Lasted until 1970.
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Leading figure in development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany. 1920's and 30's leader in Germany's rocket development system. Designed the V-2 combat rocket. Biggest ahcievement: Saturn V booster rocket helped land man on moon.
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Liquid hydrogen is a common rocket fuel in the modern day.
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Being studied at the moment is the use of candle wax as rocket fuel or a water aluminum mixture.
