Chapter One: A Brief History Of The Rocket

Underneath the largest rocket in the world, on May 8, starting at 11:00, were sixth graders. The entire sixth grade of South Mckeel Academy slept underneath the Saturn V rocket. Not an experience to forget. Previously, the middle schoolers had taken a brief tour of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, which houses the space shuttle Atlantis. They would actually get to visit the shops and kiosks on Friday, the day after. Onto the subject of the rocket itself.

Over 100 years ago, when humanity looked for new places to conquer, two men looked to the skies. Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first working motor airplane, and after that day, the world took a huge interest in aviation, causing many leading pioneers and innovators in the aerospace field to emerge, revolutionizing the way we look at the skies.

In china they had many valuable inventions ,The three most important things.People invented stuff that helped them out in their culture.A group in china invented gunpowder in the 9th century.They made gunpowder because they have to make guns,bombs,cannons and all this different stuff.They needed all the guns so they could defend themselves so there army can be stronger.In 206 B.C The chinese han

Engines built by George Stephenson and his sons, Robert, were considered superior. Rocket, which was built by them, was used on the first public railway line which opened in 1830, extending 32 miles from Liverpool to Manchester. Rocket went 16 miles per hour (Spielvogel 609).

Robert Fulton was an engineer and inventor who is credited with the first practical submarine. Another inventor was Humphry Davy who was chemist and inventor; he is best known for his discoveries of several alkali. Frederick Albert Winzer was one of the pioneers of gas lighting, he is also credited with the metronome. Richard Trevithick was an inventor who was credited with the locomotive.

Gunpowder was invented in Tang China in 850. It was made during experiments that sought to make elixirs that prolong life . It composed of saltpeter, or potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal and explodes when a spark from a percussive impact ignites it . The Chinese during the Song dynasty saw gunpowder’s potential. They utilized it in propelling rockets and making explosive projectiles. The Chinese Bureau of Munitions, by the thirteenth century, had seven factories that produced 7,000 rockets and 21,000 bombs per day . In 1232, they used thunder-crash bombs, which are early hand grenades, against the Mongols, who attacked Kaifeng, a city in northern China . Mongols, however, learned the recipe to gunpowder and began using gunpowder-based

In March of 1926, Dr. Robert Goddar successfully launch the first modern rocket propelled by liquid fuel (First liquid-fueled rocket). Before this time Rockets were launch using either gun powder of steam to propel their rockets, but what Dr. Robert Goddar was more than just launch a simple rocket, but open up new possibilities and a look at the future. Before this time rockets were used in wars by the Chinese as they were attached to arrows and/or spheres to strike their enemy (Rockets in Ancient Times). Over time Rockets have changed greatly, from essentially being a sphere and not being able to get off the ground to becoming fuel propelled machines that can take us billions of miles into space.

After WWII, the US and Soviet Union started to develop a new kind of missile program, not for aiming them at other countries, but aiming them at space, this period of time was known as the Space Race ( A Brief History of Space Exploration).America was launched into space because JFK knew the that America needed to restore its confidence and that America would not only meet with the soviets, but surpass them, and from that he made the goal of landing a man on the moon within the decade (Space Program). There were three main scientists from three different countries who started to design rocket engines for space travel. Those scientists were: Konstantin Tsiolkovsk from Russia, Robert Goddard from the US, and Hermann Oberth from Germany ( A

As of 2017, the United States of America is still the only country in the world to put men on the moon due to the many rockets they made during the 1960’s. These rockets were some revolutionary pieces of technology during the 1960’s because America went from almost nothing on rockets to men on the moon. But there are some rockets that outshone the others because those rockets did great things or they came back from near extinction. The U.S. space program made many different types of rockets during the 1960’s, but the best type of rockets were the Delta rockets, the Atlas rockets, and the Saturn rockets.

Robert H. Goddard created the first liquid powered rocket that actually flew. Many people had tried before him and had failed so that is why it was such a gigantic thing. On march 16, 1926, the rocket flew for 2.5 seconds, flew 12.5 meters high, and landed 56 meters away in a cabbage patch. The flight is unimpressive to us compared to what we have accomplished in the field of rocket science now yet back then this inspired many people all around the world. The fuel was created from liquid oxygen and gasoline.

Robert Boyle made many significant contributions to a number of subjects, including chemistry, physics, the discovery of many different unknown properties of air, and making connections between science and his religious beliefs. Many of his discoveries and theories laid the beginning groundwork for a number of the modern sciences used today and added upon previous discoveries from before his time. He greatly impacted the world during the Scientific Revolution time period and his work during that time continues to leave a lasting impression still today. He went up against the accepted beliefs of the time period and disproved many of them in the process of experimentation. In fact, without Robert Boyle, alchemy would still be the main science

The men of aviation before the Wright brothers had little but significant impact on the process of building the airplane. George Cayley lived in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. He was one of the first men to understand that “to fly is not to imitate the flapping wings of a bird but to use rigid wings.” This was a very important idea that proved to be true for the future. Europeans were at work to beat the Americans in building the first heavier-than-air plane. Otto Lilienthal, a German engineer, experimented with hang gliders. His main focus was on a fixed-wing glider not on a

On March 16, 1926, Robert Goddard successfully launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Mass. The first-of-its-kind rocket reached an altitude of 41 feet, lasted 2 seconds and averaged about 60 miles per hour. The rocket was 10 feet tall, constructed out of thin pipes, and was fueled by liquid oxygen and gasoline.

In 1917, Archibald Low and his team also invented the first electrically-steered rocket, Low's inventions during World War I were what earned him the name

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovski was another famous man. He was an astronautics pioneer. He taught astronautics,( technology that can travel above the earth’s atmosphere), and about human space travel. He is the creator of cosmonautics,(astronautics), and that humans can go into space with a rocket. He made a rocket equation based on Newton’s second law of motion. Because he showed everyone they could use a rocket to get to space themselves, he is a very important influence to how rockets orbiting the moon all started. Hermann Oberth had a book called By Rocket To Space. This book talked about the mathematics, and science of rockets. This helped get rocketeers motivated. Everyone got motivated to create more rockets. And so more and more rockets evolved.