History of Rocketry

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History of Rocketry
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Early Chinese

• Were the first to create fireworks and rockets.

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• In 1232 AD the Chinese used rockets against the
  Mongols

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• The English confrontation with Indian rockets
  came in 1780 at the Battle of Guntur.

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• In 1807, the British used rockets in 1806 to
  attack Napoleon's headquarters in France.

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National Anthem

• War of 1812, Francis Scott Key coined the phrase
  the "rocket's red glare"

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Whaling Rocket

• As far back as 1821, sailors hunted whales using
  rocket-propelled harpoons.

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Saving Lives

• Rocket was capable of carrying a line over 1,000
  feet to a stranded ship. In 1914, an estimated
  1,000 lives were saved by this technique.

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• World War I enlisted rockets once again for
  military purposes.

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• In 1926, Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled
  rocket. Fueled by liquid oxygen and gasoline,
  Robert Goddard's rocket flew for only 2.5
  seconds, climbed 41 feet, and landed 184 feet
  away in a cabbage patch.

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• V-2 Rocket became one of the best known of all
  early missiles. The 46-foot rocket utilized
  alcohol and liquid oxygen as fuel and could carry
  a 1,650 pound warhead 225 miles. During World War
  II, the Germans had fired nearly 3,000 V-2
  weapons against England and other targets.

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• "Project Paperclip" enabled the German rocket
  specialists to come to the United States to
  initiate advances in American rocketry.

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• The German team of specialists was initially
  assigned to Fort Bliss Texas where they
  reassembled and tested V-2 rockets brought to
  America from Germany

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• The Marshall Center's first major program was
  development of the Saturn rockets. The Saturn V,
  first launched on November 9, 1967, was the most
  powerful member of the Saturn family producing as
  much power as 85 Hoover Dams.

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• The crowning achievement for the Saturn V rocket
  came when it launched Apollo 11 astronauts to the
  moon in July 1969.