Created by Crank, publishers of Junior Astronaut: Breaking Through The Space Barrier available for iPad. Built with source material from NASA and WIKIPEDIA
Though not a rocket, the main principle behind rocket (and jet) propulsion was employed in a steam engine invented by Hero of Alexandria.
Archytas, a Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer was said to have constructed and flown a small bird-shaped device that was propelled by a jet of steam or compressed air.
Whilst trying to develop an "elixir of immortality", Chinese alchemists stumble across an explosive compound called Gunpowder.
It takes many years to refine the recipe for gunpowder until...
A monk, Bacon wrote about gunpowder in his book "The Epistola Fratris R. Baconis, de secretis operibus artis et naturase et nullitate magiae"...
According to legend Wan Hu, a Chinese stargazer and local official living sometime around the middle of the Ming dynasty, dreamed of spaceflight.
Kazimierz Siemienowicz, a Polish-Lithuanian commander in the Polish Royal Artillery, was an expert in the fields of artillery and rocketry. He wrote a manuscript on rocketry that was partially published before his death.
In addition to his many other accomplishments, this Italian astronomer and mathematician rekindled the spirit of scientific experimentation and challenged old beliefs relating to mass and gravity.
The brilliant English scientist's work on how objects move in relation to each other and defining the laws of gravity, established the science that all rocketry and space travel would be based on.
Following stunning rocket barrages against the British by the forces of Tippoo Sultaun of India, William Congreve took charge of British military rocket companies.
The dream of traveling through space was brought to life by French science fiction writer Jules Verne.
Konstantin Tsiolkovski was a teacher, theorist, and astronautics pioneer. Son of a Polish forester who emigrated to Russia, he wrote and taught extensively about human space travel and is considered the father of cosmonautics and human spaceflight.
American college professor and scientist Robert Goddard built and flew the world’s first liquid propellant rocket on March 16, 1926.
Hermann Oberth, a Romanian by birth and a naturalized German citizen, became fascinated by the works of Jules Verne and devoted his life to promoting space travel.
In the late 1930s, the German Verein fur Raumschiffart Society for Space Travel evolved into the team that built and flew the most advanced rocket for the time, the V2.
At the conclusion of the war in Europe, 300 trainloads of V2 rockets and parts were captured and shipped to the United States along with the majority of the principal designers, who decided beforehand to surrender to American troops.
At the conclusion of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a race for space.
Laika was a Soviet space dog that became the first animal to orbit the Earth.
The United States entered the satellite-launching business on January 31, 1958 with the successful launch of Explorer 1.
On April 12, 1961, space became the domain of humans with the launch of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
On May 5, 1961, American astronaut Alan Shepherd, Jr., lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, inside his Freedom 7 Mercury space capsule, which sat atop a Redstone rocket.
On February 20, 1962, riding on a more powerful missile, the Atlas, astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to go into orbit.
At 10:56 p.m. EDT, July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon.
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