Redstone Written Phase Rocket Pioneers Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Robert Goddard Herman Oberth Werner von Braun 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

Father of Modern Astronautics Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Russian (1857-1935) Deaf at age 13—Self taught Scientific study of space exploration Recognized liquid fuel has more energy Rockets Module 4 2 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

Tsiolkovsky—Father of Russian Rocketry Free Space – first serious description of weightlessness Described first throttleable rocket engine Conceived first space station On The Moon (1887) and A Dream of the Earth and Sky (1895) Described advantage of liquid propellants Specific Impulse – performance measured by thrust produced by one pound of propellant in one second 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

Father of Modern Rocketry Robert Goddard Experimentalist Launched first successful liquid fuel rocket March 16, 1926 Rockets Module 4 4 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

Robert Goddard—Father of American Rocketry A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes (1919) Launched first liquid fuel rocket (1926) First to explore practicality of using rocket propulsion to reach high altitudes First to prove rockets will work in a vacuum First to shoot a scientific payload into space First to develop gyro control apparatus 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

Popularized Space Travel Herman Oberth — 1923 Wrote about space travel in Germany Helped create first realistic science fiction movie Rockets Module 4 6 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

Herman Oberth First to suggest liquid propelled rockets for military strategic purposes Wrote the first treatise on space medicine The Rocket Into Planetary Space Roads To Space Travel (1929) 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

Rocket Into Planetary Space Science and technology are capable of producing rockets that can climb beyond the atmosphere. Such vehicles could reach high enough velocities to break out of Earth’s gravity Rockets would be able to carry people into space Manufacturing rockets would be profitable within a few decades. 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

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Rocket Societies of the 1930s 1. Society for Space Travel (VfR) 2. American Rocket Society 3. British Interplanetary Society 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

Werner von Braun 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

Werner von Braun Developed the first “large” rocket (A-4) Developed America’s Redstone rocket Orbited America’s first satellite Put America’s first man in space Responsible for development of the Saturn V America’s most prominent proponent of manned space travel 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

V-2 – First Large Liquid Fuel Rocket Developed by Wernher von Braun in Germany during WWII. Surface to surface missile Send 2000 pound warhead (payload) 200 miles Rockets Module 4 13 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

Concept of a U.S. Space Station – circa 1952 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

Von Braun Modified Redstone become the Jupiter-C Mercury-Redstone 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

America’s First Satellite 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

Alan Shepard—First American into space 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

Saturn V Took men to the Moon 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

Time Line to Space Tsiolkovsky Goddard Oberth Sputnik ICBM Gagarin & Shepard Von Braun V-2 Glenn Armstrong Skylab Space Shuttle Challenger Columbia ISS YWB Space Race 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 Rockets Module 4 19 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase

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Quiz Time Match the Name on the Left with their accomplishment Used as the basis for the Jupiter-C Developed V-2 First American in space Published book on space travel Father of Modern Rocketry Father of Modern Astronautics Redstone Wernher von Braun Alan Shepard Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Herman Oberth (1923) Robert Goddard Rockets Module 4 21 4/27/2017 Redstone Written Phase