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The first ever type of rockets were made. They were called the Chinese arrow rockets because the Chinese made them. -
Willem Gravesande built model cars propelled by jets of steam. -
Fort McHenry was destroyed by Congreve rockets made by the British. -
Russian Schoolteacher Konstantin Tsiolkovsky came up with the idea of space travel by rocket. -
Goddard achieved the first gasoline rocket in history. -
An American Pilot named Chuck Yeager Broke the sound barrier for the first time in the X-1, aka Glamorous Glennis. -
The Soviet Union Launched the first Earth-orbiting satellite -
The Explorer 1 was launched by the U.S. Army