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Rocket Pioneers
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Robert Goddard
Herman Oberth
Werner von Braun
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2. Father of Modern Astronautics
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Russian ( )
Deaf at age 13—Self taught
Scientific study of space exploration
Recognized liquid fuel has more energy
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3. 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
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4. Father of Modern Rocketry Robert Goddard
Experimentalist
Launched first successful liquid fuel rocket
March 16, 1926
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5. 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
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6. Popularized Space Travel Herman Oberth — 1923
Wrote about space travel in Germany
Helped create first realistic science fiction movie
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7. 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)
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8. 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.
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10. Rocket Societies of the 1930s
1. Society for Space Travel (VfR)
2. American Rocket Society
3. British Interplanetary Society
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11. Werner von Braun
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12. 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
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13. 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
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14. Concept of a U.S. Space Station – circa 1952
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15. Von Braun Modified Redstone become the Jupiter-C Mercury-Redstone
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16. America’s First Satellite
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17. Alan Shepard—First American into space
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18. Saturn V
Took men to the Moon
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19. 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
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21. 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
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