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Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) [1] was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926. [2]
This text mentions the first known multistage rocket, the 'fire-dragon issuing from the water' (huo long chu shui), thought to have been used by the Chinese navy. [11] Rocket launchers known as "wasp nests" were ordered by the Ming army in 1380. [12] In 1400, the Ming loyalist Li Jinglong used rocket launchers against the army of Zhu Di (Yongle ...
Rocket Lab was founded in New Zealand in 2006. [121] By 2009, [122] the successful launch of Ātea-1 [122] made the organization the first private company in the Southern Hemisphere to reach space. [121] The company established its headquarters in California in 2013. [123]
The first-stage booster of Falcon 9 Flight 9 made the first successful controlled ocean soft touchdown of a liquid-rocket-engine orbital booster on April 18, 2014. [31] [32] 2015 - SpaceX's Falcon 9 Flight 20 was the first time that the first stage of an orbital rocket made a successful return and vertical landing. [33]
First sound recording made on another planet. USSR 1 March 1982 Orbital Space Station: Soyuz T-5, Salyut 7: First species of plant to flower in space. [63] Arabidopsis thaliana Valentin Lebedev. USSR 1 July 1982 Trans-Neptunian region: Pioneer 10: First to travel past the orbit of Neptune, the furthest major planet from the Sun. USA 13 June ...
The earliest space vehicles were expendable launch systems, using a single or multistage rocket to carry a relatively small spacecraft in proportion to the total vehicle size and mass. [1] An early exception to this, the Space Shuttle , consisted of a reusable orbital vehicle carrying crew and payload, supported by an expendable external ...
The first one left a crater in the pad at Boca Chica Beach and threw debris for thousands of feet. SpaceX upgraded the software and made some rocket-flyback changes to improve the odds.
The first example of such was the North American X-15 spaceplane, which conducted two crewed flights which reached an altitude of over 100 kilometres (62 mi) in the 1960s. This first reusable spacecraft was air-launched on a suborbital trajectory on July 19, 1963. The first reusable orbital spaceplane was the Space Shuttle orbiter.