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Roger Bacon develops gunpowder
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Kazimierz Siemienowicz, a polish artillery expert, published a series of drawings for a staged rocket.
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Robert Anderson, an Englishman, published a two treatise on how to make rockets, prepare propellants, and perform the calculations.
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William Congreive develops ship fired rockets.
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William Hale, a Britissh inventor, invented a stickless rocket
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The first science fiction novel is published by Jules Verne.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright, two brothers from Ohio, succesfully flew an airplane they had built.
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Robert Guddard creates a design for liquid fuelled rockets.
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Robert Goddard launched the first liquid fuelled rocket and created the foundation for the techonology that would take people to space.
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Robert Goddard launches a rocket carrying a barometer.
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Valentin Glusko.a soviet rocket designer, designs U.S.S.R. rocket engine.
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Twin US Mars missions fail.
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The US cancels shuttle replacements X-33 and X-34 because of cutbacks in the space program.
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First launches of US advanced Delta IV and Atlas V commercial rockets.
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The Chinese invent a form of gunpowder for rocket propulsion
