1. History of Rockets

2. Hero Engine
Archytas – Wooden Pigeon
Hero 0f Alexandria - Aeolipile

3. Chinese Fire Arrows
First Century A.D.
1232 – Kai-King Battle

4. 13th to 15th Centuries
Roger Bacon
Jean Froissart
Joanes de Fontana

5. Chinese Legend – Wan Hu
Rocket-powered flying chair

6. Rocketry Becomes a Science
Sir Isaac Newton ( )
Newton’s Laws of Motion

7. Rocketry Becomes a Science
Colonel William Congreve
Congreve Rockets – War of 1812

8. Rocketry Becomes a Science
Francis Scott Key ( )
The Star-Spangled Banner

9. Pioneers of Modern Rocketry
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ( )

10. Pioneers of Modern Rocketry
Dr. Robert H. Goddard ( )
The Father of Modern Rocketry

11. Pioneers of Modern Rocketry
Hermann Oberth ( )
The Rocket Into Planetary Space -1923

12. German Rocket Scientists and the V-2
World War II

13. Pioneers of Modern Rocketry
Dr. Wernher von Braun ( )