HISTORY OF ROCKETRY

ROCKETRY

100 B.C.E-17TH CENTURY

• Hero Alexandria Created a machine called Aeolipile.
• Chinese invented fire arrows
• Surface running rocket torpedo designed
• Kazimierz Siemienowicz
• Archytas, Greek philosopher

ROCKETS FOR WAR

BIRTH OF ROCKET SCIENCE

• Galileo Galilei
• Newtons law of motion
• Colonel William Congreve
• Willem Gravesande

KONSTANTIN tSIOLKOVSKY

• Russian school teacher
• Proposed space exploration by rocket
• Suggested to use liquid propellants for rockets
• Father of modern astronautics

ROBERT H. GODDARD

• Created 1st successful liquid propellant rocket
• Published "A method of reaching extreme altitudes"

V-2 ROCKET

• German missile
• Verein fur Raumschiffahrt
• World war 2

SPUTNIK 1

• Earth orbiting satellite
• Led to sending a live animal to orbit
• Created by the Soviet union

EXPLORER 1

• United States made
• Launched in January 31,1958