Lt. Col. Steve Stein

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Civil Air Patrol
Aero-Space Education
Knowledge. Skills. Attitudes.
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Civil Air Patrol
Aero-Space Education
Knowledge. Skills. Attitudes.
The Civil Air Patrol Model Rocketry Program
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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
Chinese invent rockets in the 1st Century A.D.

• Made a simple explosive
• powder from saltpeter,
• sulfur and charcoal and used
• in religious festivals.
• Eventually these were turned
• into weapons. Fire Arrows
• were used at the battle of
• Kai-Keng where the Chinese
• repelled the Mongol invaders
• in 1232 (13th Century).

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• Simple rockets were used in other battles over
  the
• centuries such as
• By the French against the
• British in 1429 at Orleans
• - Again in 1449 at Siege of
• Pont-Andemer
• - 100 lb. shrapnel carrying
• rockets during the Thirty Year
• War (1618-1648)
• - In India against the British (1792-1799)

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• Newtons 3 Laws of Motion in the 17th Century
  were
• used practically in the design of rockets.

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• William Congreve, a British
• military expert, used a more
• scientific approach
• Standardized the composition
• of gunpowder
• Added sticks as flight
• stabilizing guides
• Increased rockets range
• from 300 to 3,000 yards
• Congreve rockets were used
• by the British against Americans
• at Fort McHenry in 1812 and are
• the rockets red glare in The
• Star Spangled Banner

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• William Hale developed the
• technique of spin stabilization
• which increased stability and
• accuracy.
• By the end of the 19th Century
• dreams of space flight were
• beginning, but this would require
• machines with great power and
• speed.

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Konstantin
Eduarodovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935)

• Russian teacher.
• He was a visionary and is still
• considered by his countrymen to be
• the first scientist to lay the foundation
• for space exploration.
• He was fascinated by stories such as
• Jules Verns 1865 novel From The
• Earth To The Moon.
• He invented concepts such as
• spacesuits, microgravity, and rocket
• control outside the atmosphere.

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Konstantin
Eduarodovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935)

• In 1903 he published an article titled The
• Exploration of the World Space with Jet
• Propulsion Instruments. It is recognized
• as being the first true, scientifically-based
• proposal for space exploration.
• The article covered such topics as
• - The relationship between the mass
• of a rocket as it burns fuel, the
  velocity
• of the exhaust, and its final velocity
• - He illustrated a liquid oxygen/liquid
• hydrogen engine which is the most
• powerful chemical fuel combination,
• used today by the Space Shuttle.

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Konstantin
Eduarodovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935)

• He is often recognized as the Father of Space
  Travel.

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Hermann Oberth
(1894-1989)

• Born in Transylvania. At age 11
• he too was inspired by Verns
• From The Earth To The Moon,
• realizing that many of the books
• concepts had sound science
• behind them.
• At age 14 he theorized a rocket
• could travel through space by
• expulsing exhaust gases.

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Herman Oberth
(1894-1989)

• As a doctoral student he wrote a
• thesis on the development of the
• rocket titled The Rocket In To
• Planetary Space.
• Though initially rejected by the
• science community, the thesis
• covered topics such as
• - Fuel consumption
• - Fuel handling hazards
• - Dangers of working with
• solid propellant
• - Possible hazards to humans

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Herman Oberth
(1894-1989)

• He also reasoned the concept of
• staging to lighten a rocket and
• improve its engines efficiency
• by dropping off excess dead
• weight.
• In the 1930s he worked with
• Werner von Braun on
• developing the V-2 rocket for
• the German Army, and later they
• worked together for the U.S. Army.

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Robert H.
Goddard (1882-1945)

• The Father of practical modern rocketry.
• In his high school valedictorian speech
• he wrote, The dream of yesterday, is
• the hope of today, and the reality of
• tomorrow.
• After a period of experimentation he
• built and flew the first successful liquid
• rocket, launched on 16 MAR 1926 near
• Worchester, Massachusetts.
• It flew for 2.5 seconds to an altitude of 41ft.

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Robert H.
Goddard (1882-1945)

• One of the great advantages
• of liquid fuel over solid fuel
• is that it can be controlled.
• During WWI his work on
• solid fuels led to the
• development of the WWII
• anti-tank bazooka.

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Robert H.
Goddard (1882-1945)

• In the 1920s he wrote a paper
• speculating on the eventual travel to
• the Moon using high-powered rockets.
• It caught the medias attention where
• he was ridiculed. This caused
• Goddard to conduct most of his future
• experimentation in secret.
• He and his wife moved to New Mexico
• and continued to conduct rocketry
• experiments, and caught the attention
• and interest of famed aviator Charles
• Lindbergh.

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Robert H.
Goddard (1882-1945)

• His research was little recognized
• by the U.S. scientific community,
• but was closely followed by German
• scientists who were preparing for war.
• His experimental work included
• - Fuel feeding devices
• - Propellant pumps
• - Gyroscopic stabilizers
• - Flight monitoring instrumentation

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Robert H.
Goddard (1882-1945)

• Just prior to WWII he helped
• the Navy develop the solid
• fueled Jet Assisted Take-Off
• (JATO) rocket.

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Dr. Werner von
Braun (1912-1977)

• Like many others, he was inspired
• by the works of Jules Vern and H.G. Wells.
• As a teen he was a follower of
• Oberth and became involved in a
• German rocket society.
• In the 1930s he worked with
• Oberth developing German
• rocketry.
• He led the group that developed the
• V-2 ballistic missile for the Nazis of
• WWII.

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Dr. Werner von
Braun (1912-1977)

• Though controversy still looms over
• whether he knew slave labor was used to
• build the V-2, von Brauns dream was
• always manned space flight.
• The V-2 was a marvel of its time
• - 46 feet long
• - Weighed 27,000 lbs.
• - A sophisticated and reliable liquid
• fuel propellant system
• - Flew at speeds in excess of 3,000
  miles/hour
• - Could carry a warhead/payload
• 500 miles distant

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Dr. Werner von
Braun (1912-1977)

• As WWII was ending von Braun and
• his team traveled west to meet up with
• Allied troops and surrendered, not
• wanting to be captured by advancing
• Soviet troops from the east.
• Under Operation Paperclip, nearly
• all the remaining V-2s and their
• production equipment was crated
• up and shipped to Fort Bliss, Texas
• along with von Braun and his team.

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Dr. Werner von
Braun (1912-1977)

• They continued their work
• in New Mexico, later moving
• to the Redstone Arsenal near
• Huntsville, Alabama.
• Von Brauns team was
• responsible for the Jupiter-C
• missile that launched Americas
• first satellite as well as developing
• the Saturn V rocket that took men
• to the moon.

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FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Dr. Werner von
Braun (1912-1977)

• He was always a prominent spokesman for space
• exploration and founded the National Space
  Institute
• public interest organization (which later
  merged with
• the L-5 Society to form the National Space
  Society).

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