Geography 2090A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Liquid Hydrogen, Spaceplane, Sergei Korolev
20 Jun 2016
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Self-taught russian mathematician developed the rocket equation in the late 1800s, and a lone american physicist demonstrated the piston technology for a liquid-fuel rocker in the mid. 1920s: lack of financial support = lack of progress. If it were not for the fact that rockets could be used as a. Ballistic missile in war, space would still be a daydream. Nazi germany and their plans for destruction prompted the funding to create a rocket to reach the earth"s atmosphere. Cold war space race between the united states and soviet russia: early space exploration emerged as a spin-off of these military programs. Space technology dual use program: can launch a missile or a rocket with passengers for research. A brief history of space science and technology: astronomy. Astronomy and the solar system originally held a heliocentric view. Earth is the centre planets orbit around us.
