Redstone Stage One
Civil Air Patrol
Chinese Invented it First Chinese used explosive powder for
religious festivals
Fill bamboo tubes with this powder and attached them to arrows "fire arrows”
Repelled the Mongol invaders
Great Men in History
Sir Isaac Newton › British Scientist› three scientific laws
Col. William Congreve, British artillery expert› Used a more scientific approach to rockets
Spin stabilization› Increased rocket’s range › Battle of Copenhagen 1807
Rockets Konrad Kyeser von Eichstadt
› Rocket propelled by gunpowder (1405)
France rockets against the British in 1429- 1449
Wars› Thirty Years War (1618-1648)› War of 1812
Konstatin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) “Father of Space Travel”
Had a hearing impairment
Met Nikolai Fedorov
He wrote on “Free Space”: Vacuum, Weightless – Dangers
Became a Mathematics teacher
In 1903, "The Exploration of the World Space with Jet propulsion Instruments" . (Proposal for Space Exploration)
- Liquid fuel engines/Thrust vs. Weight/Multi-Stage- Used on rockets today
Hermann Oberth(1894-1989)
Inspired by Jules Verne“Earth to the Moon”
By age 14, theorized a Recoil rocket
Wrote the book:“The Rocket into Planetary Space”
Covered: rocket's fuel consumption, fuel handling hazards, the dangers of working with solid propellants and the possible hazards to humans.
Worked together with Werner von Braun (V-2 Program) Later worked for the US Army Missile Agency
Robert H. Goddard(1882-1945)
Father of practical modern rocketry
Clark University and majored in the science
Built a successful liquid-fuel controlled rocket; launched on March 16, 1926 at Worcester, Mass.
- Developed Fuel feeding devices, propellant pumps, gyroscopic stabilizers, and instruments for monitoring the flight
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DR. WERNER von BRAUN(1912-1977)
Most important figures in the advancement of space exploration in aerospace history.
- Great follower of Hermann Oberth
- Team leader of a group that developed the V-2 ballistic missile for Nazis German
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DR. WERNER von BRAUN He became the chief architect of the
Saturn V launch vehicle that propelled American astronauts to the moon.
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