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Rockets & Spaceflight
 Black
Powder Rockets
Chinese - Sung Dyansty (960-1276 AD) ????
Sir William Congreave
 British Inventor
 Built Rockets Which Were Used Against
Napolean (1809)
Stability - Stabilizing Stock
Dangerous
Poor Accuracy
Harpooning Whales
 Jules
Verne & H.G. Wells
Robert
Goddard
 American
Physicist
 First Successful
Liquid-Fuel Rocket
 March 16, 1929
 Very Secretive
German
Rockets
 Pulse
Jet
 Described - 1909
 Patent - 1931
 Paul Schmidt
 German V-1 - “Buzz Bomb”
 Peenemunde, Baltic Coast
 First Flight - 1942
 German
V-2 (Shown)
 Werner von Braun
 First Flight -1944
 1100 Hit England
 Liquid Fuel Rocket
 Allied Bombers (200:1)
 New
York ??????
US Versus USSR
 Greatest
Prize Of WW II
German Rocket Technology
 US
von Braun’s Scientists Surrendered To Allies
Peenemunde Technical Archives
V-2 Hardware
 USSR
Occupied Peenemunde
V-2 Production Plants
V-2 Technicians
 US
Won
USSR Space Milestones
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First Satellite - Sputnik I
 October 4, 1957
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First Man In Space
 April 12, 1961
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First Woman In Space
 June 16, 1963
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Disaster - April 1967
 Re-Entry
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Salyut I - 1971
Salyut 6 - 1980
 Refueled By “Progress
US Space Milestones

Vanguard Destroyed - Public View
 December 6, 1957
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First In Space - Alan Shepard
First To Orbit - John Glenn (1962)
First Spacewalk
 Gemini - 1965, 1966
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Disaster - January 1967
 Grissom, White, Chafee
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First Man On Moon - Apollo 11
 Neil Armstrong
 Saturn V
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Firrst Shuttle Flight - April 1981
Disaster - January 1986
 Challenger