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History of Rockets

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Short history of NASA
part of Water Rocket Unit

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Part 1

The History of Rocketry
The Chinese first used rockets in the 13th century as “arrows of flying fire” that would light the tents of their enemies on fire. Rockets continued to be used primarily only as weapons until the middle of this century when man began to explore space.
The development of the modern rocket is the primary result of the work of three men:
Tsiolkovsky
Tsiolkovsky was a Russian schoolteacher that first established in 1883, that rockets would work in the vacuum of outer space. He also wrote about “multiple staged” rockets where one stage dropped off after it was out of fuel and reduced weight. Even long before space travel he described how a space station would work and how people would live in artificial gravity.
Goddard
Goddard is called the “father of U.S. rocketry”. In the 1920’s he took over where Tsiolkovsky had left off and began experiments with liquid filled rockets. Goddard became the first to launch liquid filled rockets, which are the standard type of rocket now used in all space exploration.
Oberth
Oberth, a German, is called the “third father of modern space travel”. He is first remembered as a builder of the German V-1 and V-2. The V-2’s were the first of the world’s BIG rockets. The V-2’s were the first man-made object to enter space. They were the first sign that the day of space travel was coming.
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Part 2

Space Rockets
As mentioned before, rockets were primarily confined to military use as weapons until the 1950’s. It was then that the race for space was kicked off with the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik in 1957. Many of the rockets that opened the space age were adaptations of the same rockets used for ballistic missiles of war.
The history of space rocketry in the United States had several important programs:
Project Mercury
Project Mercury was the first manned space program in the United States and began in 1958. All flights in this program were one-man missions. One purpose of this program was to study the ability of man to survive and function in a space environment.
Project Gemini
Project Gemini took over where Mercury left off by sending two-manned flights into space. Gemini started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. Ten Gemini crews flew low Earth orbit (LEO) missions during 1965 and 1966, putting the United States in the lead during the Cold War Space Race against the Soviet Union. Ed White became the first American to make an extravehicular activity or “space walk", on June 3, 1965, during Gemini 4. Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on Gemini 12 became the first space traveler to prove that useful work could be done outside a spacecraft without life-threatening exhaustion.
Project Apollo
During Apollo 11 mission, Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface. The first manned vehicle to land on the moon in 1969 was called the Eagle.
A total of 12 humans have walked on the moon, all Americans, during the different Apollo missions.
The last time a human walked on the moon was in 1972.
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What is the name of the first man-made object to orbit in outer space?
What year was the object launched and what county launched?

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What was significant about Project Mercury?

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When did man first land on the moon and what was the name of the lunar-lander?

Part 3

Skylab
The Skylab was the first laboratory designed to orbit the Earth. The Skylab space station was used for four missions and stayed in space for six years, from 1973 to 1979. Numerous scientific experiments were conducted aboard Skylab. For example, crews were able to confirm the existence of coronal holes in the Sun
Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle is the best example of space transportation. It is designed to be both an airplane and a spacecraft. Previous space programs were only exploratory but the shuttle had a real practical use. Its job is to take payloads (cargo) into space and bring them back if needed. It has carried satellites into space, helped to retrieve and repair them, and carried out many experiments in space not possible in the past. The last space shuttle mission was in July 2011. Since then NASA has lost the ability to send anything "large" into space
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Part 4

International Space Station
The first piece of the International Space Station was launched in 1998. The first crew arrived on November 2, 2000. Over time more pieces have been added. NASA and its partners around the world finished the space station in 2011. It is a scientific laboratory in which an international crew of seven people live and work while traveling at a speed of five miles per second, orbiting Earth every 90 minutes.
The space station has been continuously occupied since November 2000. In that time, 222 people from 18 countries have visited. The space station remains the springboard to NASA's next great leap in exploration, enabling research and technology developments that will benefit human and robotic exploration of destinations beyond low-Earth orbit, including asteroids and Mars
Scott Kelley, American, set the record for the most continuous days in outer space in by spending 342 days (11 months, 3 days) from March 2015 to March 2016.
Private Spaceflight
On December 23, 2004, Present George W Bush signed the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act which provides a basic legal framework for commercial human spaceflight.
This allowed for development of private companies to carry out rocket launches while NASA continues to develop the next stage of space flight.
SpaceX has the most advance program of any of the private companies. Falcon 9 rocket has takes astronauts to the in international space station. The Falcon 9 rocket not only can carry large load into space, it is reusable.
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Who was the person who has been in space the most continuous days and when?

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What is significant about International Space Station?

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What is significant about Falcon 9?

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