History of Rockets
Hero Engine Archytas – Wooden Pigeon Hero 0f Alexandria - Aeolipile
Chinese Fire Arrows First Century A.D. 1232 – Kai-King Battle
13th to 15th Centuries Roger Bacon Jean Froissart Joanes de Fontana
Chinese Legend – Wan Hu Rocket-powered flying chair
Rocketry Becomes a Science Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Newton’s Laws of Motion
Rocketry Becomes a Science Colonel William Congreve Congreve Rockets – War of 1812
Rocketry Becomes a Science Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) The Star-Spangled Banner
Pioneers of Modern Rocketry Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935)
Pioneers of Modern Rocketry Dr. Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) The Father of Modern Rocketry
Pioneers of Modern Rocketry Hermann Oberth (1894-1989) The Rocket Into Planetary Space -1923
German Rocket Scientists and the V-2 World War II
Pioneers of Modern Rocketry Dr. Wernher von Braun (1912-1977)