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This article gives a concise timeline of rocket and missile technology.
[edit] 1st Century
- 1st century CE - aeolipile steam rocket on a bearing
[edit] 13th Century
- 13th century CE - Rockets and fireworks evolved with use in weaponry in China.
[edit] 15th Century
[edit] 17th Century
- 1650 - Artis Magnae Artilleriae pars prima ("Great Art of Artillery, the First Part") is printed in Amsterdam, about a year before the death of its author, Kazimierz Siemienowicz.
[edit] 18th century
- 1798 - Tipu Sultan, the King of the state of Mysore in India, develops and uses iron rockets against the British Army.
[edit] 19th century
- 1806 - Claude Ruggieri an italian living in France launched animals on rockets, and recovered them using parachutes. He was prevented from launching a child by police. His rockets were capable of launching rams.[1]
[edit] 20th century
- 1922 - Hermann Oberth publishes Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen ("By Rocket into Planetary Space").
- 1929 - Woman in the Moon, considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films.
- 1942 - A V-2 rocket becomes the first man-made object in space.
- 1949 - Willy Ley publishes The Conquest of Space
- 1952 - Wernher von Braun discusses the technical details of a manned exploration of Mars in The Mars Project.
- 1953 - Colliers Magazine publishes a series of articles on man's future in space, igniting the interest of people around the world. The series includes numerous articles by Ley and von Braun, illustrated by Chesley Bonestell.
- 1957 - The USSR launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite.
- 1958 - The U.S. launches Explorer 1, the first American artificial satellite, on a Jupiter-C rocket.
- 1958 - US launches their first ICBM, the Atlas-B (the Atlas-A was a test article only).
- 1961 - the USSR launches Vostok 1, Yuri Gagarin reached a height of 327 km above Earth and was the first man to orbit earth.
- 1963 - The USSR launches Vostok 6, Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman (and first civilian) to orbit earth. She remained in space for nearly three days and orbited the earth 48 times.
- 1963 - US X-15 rocket-plane, the first reusable manned spacecraft (suborbital) reaches space, pioneering reusability, carried launch and glide landings.
- 1965 - USSR Proton rocket, highly successful launch vehicle with notable payloads, Salyut 6 & Salyut 7, Mir & ISS components
- 1965 - Robert Salked investigates various single stage to orbit spaceplane concepts[3][4][5]
- 1966 - USSR Luna 9, the first soft landing on the Moon
- 1966 - USSR launches Soyuz spacecraft, longest-running series of spacecraft, eventually serving Soviet, Russian and International space missions.
- 1969 - US Apollo 11, first men on the Moon, first lunar surface extravehicular activity.
[edit] 21st century
- 2004 - US-based, first privately developed, manned (suborbital) spaceflight, SpaceShipOne demonstrates reusability
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