Space Exploration
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- 900's
- Chinese invented rockets. Rockets were filled with gun powder
- 1200's
- Chinese used rockets to launch arrows.
- 1600's
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- Isaac Newton - developed theory
Prinicple of Rocket Flight
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." - 1800's
- Russian's experiment with solid fuel rockets
- 1926
- Robert Goddard - Invents rocket that uses liquid fuel and oxygen, so it can burn fuel in space.
- 1957
- 1st satellite send into orbit
- 1961 - April
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Russian - YURI GARGAIN
1st person in space - 1961 - May
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American - ALLEN SHEPHERD
1st American in space - 1966
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American - JOHN GLENN
- orbited the earth 3 times - 1969
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American's - Apollo spacecraft
- landed on the moon
Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin
& Buzz Aldrin - 1981
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American - Space Shuttle "Columbia"
send into space and safetly returned