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Solid fuel rockets
also called rockets motors, have been used since the 1200s to launch fireworks and small military rockets -
Vostok
on april 12 1961, sovietic cosmonaut (astronaut) yuri Gagarin became the fist person travel space when made a single orbit around the earth in his Vostok 1 spacecreft. -
liquid fuel rockets
In 1926 Robert Goddard,"the father of modern Rockery"invented the liquid fuel rockets -
V-2 ballistic missile
wernher von braun german researchers designed and built the v-2 ballistic missile one of the first modern rockets. -
Explorer 1
the united states responded in january 1954 with its first satellite, a 31- pounds (14-kg.) craft named Explorer 1. -
Rase To The Moon
spuntic the space age began on october 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched sputnik 1,the first artificial object to orbit the Earth -
Friendship 7
a year later, in 1962 john glenn in the friendship 7 mercury spacecraft became the first american to orbit the earth -
Apollo
with the apollo program, america finally took the lead in the space race.much larger than gemeni, the Apollo spacecreft was designed to confortably accommodate three astronauts, -
Neil Armstrong
became the first human being to set foot on another world. -
Manned Space Stations
space stations in which people could live and work for months at a time -
Skylab
in contrast to the cramped salyut stations, skylab contained a huge laboratory, spacious living quartes, and even showers for the austronauts -
space station
like mir, the ISS consists of many modules that are built on the ground and then individually sent up and attached to the portion of the station already in orbit
