Unit 2 People Flashcards
15th Century (1401 - 1500)
Leonardo Da Vinci: Desinged many flying machines, including helicopters and parachutes
16th Century (1501 - 1600)
Conard Haas, concept of multi-stage rockets and liquid fuel for propulsion
17th Century (1601 - 1700)
Johannes Kepler: Wrote a book that imagined Earth from the moon (First science fiction)(Somnium)
Issac Newton: Developed laws of motion and gravity
18th Century (1701 - 1800)
Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel, and Jacques-Étienne: successfully flew ballon in 1783
19th Century (1801-1900)
William Moore: Used Newton’s third law to explain rocket dynamics
William Leitch: Prpoused using rockets for human spaceflight
Jules Gabbriale Verne: wrote adventure stories of space travel: Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, and Around the World in Eighty Days
Herbert George Wells: Shakespeare of science fiction, along with Jules Verne. he is best known for writing science fiction novels like The Time Machine, The War of the World, and then First Men in the Moon
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky: Father of astronautics, known for the development of the rocket equation in 1897
20th Century (1901-2000)
The Wright Brothers: The first successful flight of heavier-than-air aircraft in 1903
Robert Esnauly-Pelterie: Independently published the rocket equation
Robert Hutching Goddard: father of modern rocketry, development, and use of liquid-fueled and solid-fueled rockets, laid the foundation for going to the moon
Herman Oberth: founding father of rocketry and astronautics, helped make the V2 rocket, rocket power car
Wernher Von Braun: V-2 Rocket, Saturn V rocket which took humanity to the moon
Orson Wells: Broadcast of the war of the worlds
Theodore Von Karman: Space starts at 100km above Earth, Karman Line
21st Century (2001-present)
Yang Liwei: Fist person to be sent into space by Chinese space program
