Robert Goddard
The first rocket was invented around 1100 AD in China. These rockets used solid propellants and were mainly used as weapons and fireworks. It was not until the 1920s that rocket societies emerged, and by the 1930s and 1940s professional rocket engineering took off. The Space Age began in 1926 on a farm in Auburn, Mass., when Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, demonstrating a new technology that would ultimately take humans into space and to the moon, and send robotic spacecraft to the edges of the solar system and beyond. Asked by Richard Tubbs. The inventor of the first rocket is a mystery lost to time, but it’s believed that 9th Century Chinese alchemists invented gunpowder, which eventually led to bombs and rocket-propelled projectiles like cannonballs and arrows as well as the ubiquitous firecrackers. The first rocket which could fly high enough to get into space was the V2 missile which was first launched by Germany in 1942. The first rocket which actually launched something into space was used to launch Sputnik, the first satellite, on October 4, 1957. The rocket that launched Sputnik was a R-7 ICBM rocket. 1  Javascript must be enabled to use Cool Cosmos. 2  Learn how. A key advance was the invention of the first liquid-fuelled rocket in 1926 by the American Robert Goddard in Auburn, Massachusetts. Goddard is considered to be one of the fathers of the modern rocket era.
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