History of Space Exploration Flashcards

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A Greek from Tarentum who designed a steamed-powered wooden bird.

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Archytas

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Created the rocket-like device called an Aeolipile

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Hero of Alexandria

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Who were the ones who invented true fireworks in the first century?

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The Chinese

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A weapon that the Chinese used against the Mongols during the battle of Kai-Keng

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Fire Arrows

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Created new forms of gunpowder, which increased the rockets range

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Roger Bacon

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Used a tube to increase the launch accuracy of a rocket, which led to the development of the modern bazooka.

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Jean Froissart

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Designed rocket-powered surface-running torpedo’s for setting ships on fire.

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Joanes de Fontana

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Invented the “step rocket”, which led to the multistage design of modern rockets.

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Johann Schmidlap

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Assembled a rocket-powered flying chair with 47 rockets

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Wan-Hu

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Built steam-powered cars

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William Gravesande

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Designed rockets for the British military

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Colonel William Congreve

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He developed a technique called spin stabilization: using exhaust gas to make the rocket body spin like a bullet, keeping it’s trajectory stable.

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William Hale

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Proposed the idea of space exploration by rocket. Known as the father of modern astronautics

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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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Achieved the first liquid propellant rocket launch. Known as the father of modern rocketry

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Robert H. Goddard

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Published a book in 1923 in rocket travel in space.

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Hermann Oberth

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A society that was formed. known as the Society for Space Travel, led the development of the V-2 rocket which was to be used against London in WWII

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Verein Fur Raumschiffahrt

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The key figure/lead of the development of the V-2 rocket

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Wernher von Braun

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An American satellite which was launched in 1958

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Explorer 1

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The first ever artificial Earth-orbiting satellite; launched on 10/04/57

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Sputnik 1