Rockets & Spaceflight Black Powder Rockets Chinese - Sung Dyansty ( AD) ???? Sir William Congreave British Inventor Built Rockets Which Were Used Against Napolean (1809) Stability - Stabilizing Stock Dangerous Poor Accuracy Harpooning Whales Jules Verne & H.G. Wells
Robert Goddard American Physicist First Successful Liquid-Fuel Rocket March 16, 1929 Very Secretive
German Rockets Pulse Jet Described Patent Paul Schmidt German V-1 - “Buzz Bomb” Peenemunde, Baltic Coast First Flight German V-2 (Shown) Werner von Braun First Flight 1100 Hit England Liquid Fuel Rocket Allied Bombers (200:1) New York ??????
US Versus USSR Greatest Prize Of WW II German Rocket Technology US von Braun’s Scientists Surrendered To Allies Peenemunde Technical Archives V-2 Hardware USSR Occupied Peenemunde V-2 Production Plants V-2 Technicians US Won
USSR Space Milestones First Satellite - Sputnik I October 4, 1957 First Man In Space April 12, 1961 First Woman In Space June 16, 1963 Disaster - April 1967 Re-Entry Salyut I Salyut Refueled By “Progress
US Space Milestones Vanguard Destroyed - Public View December 6, 1957 First In Space - Alan Shepard First To Orbit - John Glenn (1962) First Spacewalk Gemini , 1966 Disaster - January 1967 Grissom, White, Chafee First Man On Moon - Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong Saturn V Firrst Shuttle Flight - April 1981 Disaster - January 1986 Challenger