Rockets Spaceflight u Black Powder Rockets t Chinese

Rockets & Spaceflight u Black Powder Rockets t Chinese - Sung Dyansty (960 -1276 AD) ? ? t Sir William Congreave w British Inventor w Built Rockets Which Were Used Against Napolean (1809) t Stability - Stabilizing Stock t Dangerous t Poor Accuracy t Harpooning Whales u Jules Verne & H. G. Wells

Robert Goddard u American Physicist u First Successful Liquid-Fuel Rocket u March 16, 1929 u Very Secretive

German Rockets u Pulse Jet t Described - 1909 t Patent - 1931 w Paul Schmidt t German V-1 - “Buzz Bomb” w Peenemunde, Baltic Coast w First Flight - 1942 u German V-2 (Shown) t Werner von Braun t First Flight -1944 t 1100 Hit England t Liquid Fuel Rocket t Allied Bombers (200: 1) u New York ? ? ?

US Versus USSR u Greatest Prize Of WW II t German Rocket Technology u US t von Braun’s Scientists Surrendered To Allies t Peenemunde Technical Archives t V-2 Hardware u USSR t Occupied Peenemunde t V-2 Production Plants t V-2 Technicians u US Won

USSR Space Milestones u First Satellite - Sputnik I t October 4, 1957 u First Man In Space t April 12, 1961 u First Woman In Space t June 16, 1963 u Disaster - April 1967 t Re-Entry u u Salyut I - 1971 Salyut 6 - 1980 t Refueled By “Progress

US Space Milestones u Vanguard Destroyed - Public View t December 6, 1957 u u u First In Space - Alan Shepard First To Orbit - John Glenn (1962) First Spacewalk t Gemini - 1965, 1966 u Disaster - January 1967 t Grissom, White, Chafee u First Man On Moon - Apollo 11 t Neil Armstrong t Saturn V u u Firrst Shuttle Flight - April 1981 Disaster - January 1986 t Challenger