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History of Rocketry Video
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China 2000 yrs ago Gunpowder Chase away evil sprits! BOOM Realization of military value 1000 AD Fire Rockets Marco Polo used them as fireworks
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Early Military Examples 1132 Kai Feng Fu Battlefield Loud missile with 1/3 mile kill zone 1241 Mongols attack Sejo (Hungry) Expanded rocketry to Europe By 1730, Germans had rockets with 120 lb payloads Congreve Rocket – British Used against US in War of 1812Fired 25,000 rockets in a single battle
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Early Military (Con’t) US Robert E Lee – 1846 Rocket Battalion Civil War Not very effective – not much effort Launch from Richmond to DC (100 miles) Rocket was lost
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Modern Military WW I Attached to planes to shoot down enemy balloons First air to air missiles
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Tsiolkovsky Russian – 1857 – 1935 Founding father of rocketry
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1920’s and 1930’s Robert Goddard – US Werner Von Braun – Germany Experimented with fuel types Many advancements
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WW 2 V1 – V2 “Buzz Bombs” V2 50000 ft in altitude 2000 mph 1000 lb payload Von Braun was captured by the United States (huge get) Video
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1950’s Cape Canaveral White Sands, New Mexico
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Redstone Rocket US Army Early satellite launches Mercury Astronauts
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Saturn Rocket Apollo program Man to the Moon Video
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Space Shuttle Reusable Danger Video
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Future Rocket Systems Falcon 9
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Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle SDV Ares Series
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