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Pioneers of Space: The Innovators and Milestones in Rocket History

Explore the incredible journey of space exploration with significant milestones and key figures. Discover how pioneering astronauts like Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin opened the gateway to the cosmos. Learn about the foundational principles of rocketry established by innovators such as Robert Goddard and the evolution of technology from ancient Greek Hero rockets to modern NASA missions like Apollo and Skylab. Delve into the mechanics of rockets, including thrust, inertia, and control systems, and understand the challenges and successes that have shaped our journey into space.

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Pioneers of Space: The Innovators and Milestones in Rocket History

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  1. FamousPeople RocketHistory RocketPrinciples RocketSystemsand Controls FamousSpaceFlights 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 15 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt 25 pt

  2. First man to walk on the moon

  3. Neil Armstrong

  4. A Russian; first man in space

  5. Yuri Gagarin

  6. Father of Modern Rocketry

  7. Robert Goddard

  8. First American in space

  9. Alan Sheppard

  10. First American to orbit Earth

  11. John Glenn

  12. The first rocket engine; developed by the Greeks

  13. Hero

  14. These rockets lit the sky during the battle at Fort McHenry in 1812

  15. Congreve Rockets

  16. These rockets were fired at London during WWII

  17. V-2 Rockets

  18. The space program formally organized by the US in October 1958

  19. NASA

  20. The first US space station

  21. Skylab

  22. The rate or change in velocity with respect to time

  23. Acceleration

  24. To force or push, the amount of push to get the rocket traveling upwards

  25. Thrust

  26. The tendency of an object at rest to stay at rest and an object in motion to stay in motion

  27. Inertia

  28. Mass times acceleration

  29. Force

  30. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

  31. Newton’s Third Law of Motion

  32. System that steers the rocket and keeps it stable

  33. Control System

  34. What the rocket carries

  35. Payload

  36. The brains of the rocket

  37. Guidance System

  38. Gives the rocket its shape and other systems are contained within it

  39. Air frame

  40. Combination of fuel and oxidizer

  41. Propellant

  42. The first artificial satellite in space, October 4, 1957

  43. Sputnik I

  44. The rocket that placed Friendship 7 into space; it held John Glenn

  45. Atlas Rocket

  46. The name of the missions that held two crew members

  47. Gemini

  48. The space program designed to put man on the moon

  49. Apollo

  50. A space transportation system used for transporting to space and returning to Earth

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