Geography 2090A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Apollo 1, Mars Landing, Lunar Orbiter Program

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Space history - sputnik to apollo and zond. October 4th, 1957: first time any orbit had been into space. Invention of rocket in china: used gunpowder (by accident: created fireworks ended up creating rockets. This is where (cid:498)rockets red glare(cid:499) comes from usa can withstand rockets. War of 1812: british used rockets to attack military forces. Pioneers of spaceflight: ***know basic ideas of pioneers*** Tsiolkovsky: developed first basic theory of rocket flight into space. Until later german military took over design. Theorist: how to put things into space. Bis: plans to get people to the moon. Wernher von braun: developed large military rockets for germany first ballistic missiles. Against targets in southern england: not too long till they surrendered to america so they could. Actively involved in developing some rocket that took americans to the develop their own missiles moon. Korolev: convinced russian government to launch one rocket into space (first one)