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Redstone Stage One

Redstone Stage One. Civil Air Patrol. Chinese Invented it First. Chinese used explosive powder for religious festivals Fill bamboo tubes with this powder and attached them to arrows "fire arrows” Repelled the Mongol invaders. Great Men in History. Sir Isaac Newton British Scientist

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Redstone Stage One

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  1. Redstone Stage One Civil Air Patrol

  2. Chinese Invented it First • Chinese used explosive powder for religious festivals • Fill bamboo tubes with this powder and attached them to arrows "fire arrows” • Repelled the Mongol invaders

  3. Great Men in History • Sir Isaac Newton • British Scientist • three scientific laws • Col. William Congreve, British artillery expert • Used a more scientific approach to rockets • Spin stabilization • Increased rocket’s range • Battle of Copenhagen 1807

  4. Rockets • Konrad Kyeser von Eichstadt • Rocket propelled by gunpowder (1405) • France rockets against the British in 1429- 1449 • Wars • Thirty Years War (1618-1648) • War of 1812

  5. Konstatin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935)“Father of Space Travel” Had a hearing impairment Met Nikolai Fedorov He wrote on “Free Space”: Vacuum, Weightless – Dangers Became a Mathematics teacher In 1903, "The Exploration of the World Space with Jet propulsion Instruments" . (Proposal for Space Exploration) - Liquid fuel engines/Thrust vs. Weight/Multi-Stage - Used on rockets today

  6. Hermann Oberth(1894-1989) Inspired by Jules Verne “Earth to the Moon” By age 14, theorized a Recoil rocket Wrote the book: “The Rocket into Planetary Space” Covered:rocket's fuel consumption, fuel handling hazards, the dangers of working with solid propellants and the possible hazards to humans. Worked together with Werner von Braun(V-2 Program) Later worked for the US Army Missile Agency

  7. Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) Father of practical modern rocketry Clark University and majored in the science Built a successful liquid-fuel controlled rocket; launched on March 16, 1926 at Worcester, Mass. - Developed Fuel feeding devices, propellant pumps, gyroscopic stabilizers, and instruments for monitoring the flight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Yj_ktiR2c&feature=player_embedded Right click –open hyperlink ( for video)

  8. DR. WERNER von BRAUN(1912-1977) Most important figures in the advancement of space exploration in aerospace history. - Great follower of Hermann Oberth - Team leader of a group that developed the V-2 ballistic missile for Nazis German - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rEzSSf-_AiY Right click + “open hyperlink”

  9. DR. WERNER von BRAUN • He became the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle that propelled American astronauts to the moon.

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