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1232 represents the first reported use of a gunpowder-fueled rocket in warfare.
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By the 14th century, gunpowder-rocket technology migrated to western Europe, where over the next few centuries military engineers attempted to develop and expand its role in warfare.
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In the 17th century, there was a period of changes in intellectual thought called the Scientific Revolution. Durning this time, Galileo also invented the first telescope.
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Sir Issac Newton developed and published his three laws of motion and the universal law of gravitation.
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William Hale patented his spinning rocket and sold the manufacturing rights to the United States.
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The British Army experimented with Hale's new rockets during the Crimean war.
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The british inventor, William Hale, attempted to improve the accuracy of Cosgrove's stick guided rocket with a tecnique called spin stabliization.
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Goddard launches a liquid-filled rocket from Auburn, Masachusettes.
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The first artificial satelite, Sputnik 1, is launched into space by the Soviet Union.
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The first American stellite, the Explorer 1, is launvhes to space inn responce to Sputnik.
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The Soviet Union sent the first man, Yuri Gagarin, in space to orbit earth.
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The Saturn V rocket leaves earth carrying Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
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A space telescope planned for launch by NASA in 2007 for the purpose of searching for Earth-sized extrasolar planets. The Kepler mission, to be managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will seek to locate planets indirectly by watching for transits.
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In this century, more advanced engineering versions of the rockets advocated by such space travel visionaries.
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The first human-crewed mission to visit Mars in the 21st century.
