Bottle Rockets
History
The first known rockets are Chinese fire arrows from around the 1200s when they were at war with the Mongolians. The rockets were open on one side and filled with gunpowder which produced thrust.
Newtons 3 laws explain how rockets work and how they are able to work in outer space.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposed liquid propelled rockets and space exploration and is now called the father of modern astronautics.
In 1926 Robert Goddard built the first liquid fueled rocket (powered by liquid oxygen and gasoline). The rocket flew for two and a half seconds, climbed 12.5 meters high, and landed 56 meters away. Goddard's experiments continued with gyroscope for flight control, varying compartments for payloads and recovery parachutes.
Hermann Oberth jump started a rise of rocket societies around the 1920s which led to the V-2 rocket used in WWII by Germany.
October 4th, 1957 marked the first satellite launched into space. Short after Sputnik was sent up the Soviets also sent a rocket with a dog named Laika on board.
July 20, 1969 marked the first moon landing. NASA sent Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to the moon.
Not too long ago NASA discovered an "Earth 2.0 " Kepler-452b was discovered on July 23, 2015. Earth 2.0 is within the "habitable zone" and takes 385 days to rotate around its sun. The Kepler-452 system is located 1,400 light-years away. This mission also revealed that there are about 40 billion Earth sized planets orbiting a sun in the habitable zone. Again, February 22, 2017, another planet with the same profiles was discovered, this time it's only 40 light years away....