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Civil Air Patrol
Aero-Space Education
Knowledge. Skills. Attitudes.
Squadron Aerospace EducationTeam
C/John Herman Cadet AEO
Lt. Col. Steve Stein Aerospace Education
Officer 1LT Tom Tye Deputy AEO CPT Dona
Stein Orientation Rides Project Officer
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Civil Air Patrol
Aero-Space Education
Knowledge. Skills. Attitudes.
The Civil Air Patrol Model Rocketry Program
Redstone Stage Text colored in green indicates
Quiz material
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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
Chinese invent rockets in the 1st Century A.D.
  • Made a simple explosive
  • powder from saltpeter,
  • sulfur and charcoal and used
  • in religious festivals.
  • Eventually these were turned
  • into weapons. Fire Arrows
  • were used at the battle of
  • Kai-Keng where the Chinese
  • repelled the Mongol invaders
  • in 1232 (13th Century).

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
  • Simple rockets were used in other battles over
    the
  • centuries such as
  • By the French against the
  • British in 1429 at Orleans
  • - Again in 1449 at Siege of
  • Pont-Andemer
  • - 100 lb. shrapnel carrying
  • rockets during the Thirty Year
  • War (1618-1648)
  • - In India against the British (1792-1799)

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
  • Newtons 3 Laws of Motion in the 17th Century
    were
  • used practically in the design of rockets.

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
  • William Congreve, a British
  • military expert, used a more
  • scientific approach
  • Standardized the composition
  • of gunpowder
  • Added sticks as flight
  • stabilizing guides
  • Increased rockets range
  • from 300 to 3,000 yards
  • Congreve rockets were used
  • by the British against Americans
  • at Fort McHenry in 1812 and are
  • the rockets red glare in The
  • Star Spangled Banner

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
  • William Hale developed the
  • technique of spin stabilization
  • which increased stability and
  • accuracy.
  • By the end of the 19th Century
  • dreams of space flight were
  • beginning, but this would require
  • machines with great power and
  • speed.

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Konstantin
Eduarodovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935)
  • Russian teacher.
  • He was a visionary and is still
  • considered by his countrymen to be
  • the first scientist to lay the foundation
  • for space exploration.
  • He was fascinated by stories such as
  • Jules Verns 1865 novel From The
  • Earth To The Moon.
  • He invented concepts such as
  • spacesuits, microgravity, and rocket
  • control outside the atmosphere.

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Konstantin
Eduarodovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935)
  • In 1903 he published an article titled The
  • Exploration of the World Space with Jet
  • Propulsion Instruments. It is recognized
  • as being the first true, scientifically-based
  • proposal for space exploration.
  • The article covered such topics as
  • - The relationship between the mass
  • of a rocket as it burns fuel, the
    velocity
  • of the exhaust, and its final velocity
  • - He illustrated a liquid oxygen/liquid
  • hydrogen engine which is the most
  • powerful chemical fuel combination,
  • used today by the Space Shuttle.

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Konstantin
Eduarodovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935)
  • He is often recognized as the Father of Space
    Travel.

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Hermann Oberth
(1894-1989)
  • Born in Transylvania. At age 11
  • he too was inspired by Verns
  • From The Earth To The Moon,
  • realizing that many of the books
  • concepts had sound science
  • behind them.
  • At age 14 he theorized a rocket
  • could travel through space by
  • expulsing exhaust gases.

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Herman Oberth
(1894-1989)
  • As a doctoral student he wrote a
  • thesis on the development of the
  • rocket titled The Rocket In To
  • Planetary Space.
  • Though initially rejected by the
  • science community, the thesis
  • covered topics such as
  • - Fuel consumption
  • - Fuel handling hazards
  • - Dangers of working with
  • solid propellant
  • - Possible hazards to humans

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Herman Oberth
(1894-1989)
  • He also reasoned the concept of
  • staging to lighten a rocket and
  • improve its engines efficiency
  • by dropping off excess dead
  • weight.
  • In the 1930s he worked with
  • Werner von Braun on
  • developing the V-2 rocket for
  • the German Army, and later they
  • worked together for the U.S. Army.

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Robert H.
Goddard (1882-1945)
  • The Father of practical modern rocketry.
  • In his high school valedictorian speech
  • he wrote, The dream of yesterday, is
  • the hope of today, and the reality of
  • tomorrow.
  • After a period of experimentation he
  • built and flew the first successful liquid
  • rocket, launched on 16 MAR 1926 near
  • Worchester, Massachusetts.
  • It flew for 2.5 seconds to an altitude of 41ft.

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Robert H.
Goddard (1882-1945)
  • One of the great advantages
  • of liquid fuel over solid fuel
  • is that it can be controlled.
  • During WWI his work on
  • solid fuels led to the
  • development of the WWII
  • anti-tank bazooka.

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Robert H.
Goddard (1882-1945)
  • In the 1920s he wrote a paper
  • speculating on the eventual travel to
  • the Moon using high-powered rockets.
  • It caught the medias attention where
  • he was ridiculed. This caused
  • Goddard to conduct most of his future
  • experimentation in secret.
  • He and his wife moved to New Mexico
  • and continued to conduct rocketry
  • experiments, and caught the attention
  • and interest of famed aviator Charles
  • Lindbergh.

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Robert H.
Goddard (1882-1945)
  • His research was little recognized
  • by the U.S. scientific community,
  • but was closely followed by German
  • scientists who were preparing for war.
  • His experimental work included
  • - Fuel feeding devices
  • - Propellant pumps
  • - Gyroscopic stabilizers
  • - Flight monitoring instrumentation

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Robert H.
Goddard (1882-1945)
  • Just prior to WWII he helped
  • the Navy develop the solid
  • fueled Jet Assisted Take-Off
  • (JATO) rocket.

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Dr. Werner von
Braun (1912-1977)
  • Like many others, he was inspired
  • by the works of Jules Vern and H.G. Wells.
  • As a teen he was a follower of
  • Oberth and became involved in a
  • German rocket society.
  • In the 1930s he worked with
  • Oberth developing German
  • rocketry.
  • He led the group that developed the
  • V-2 ballistic missile for the Nazis of
  • WWII.

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Dr. Werner von
Braun (1912-1977)
  • Though controversy still looms over
  • whether he knew slave labor was used to
  • build the V-2, von Brauns dream was
  • always manned space flight.
  • The V-2 was a marvel of its time
  • - 46 feet long
  • - Weighed 27,000 lbs.
  • - A sophisticated and reliable liquid
  • fuel propellant system
  • - Flew at speeds in excess of 3,000
    miles/hour
  • - Could carry a warhead/payload
  • 500 miles distant

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Dr. Werner von
Braun (1912-1977)
  • As WWII was ending von Braun and
  • his team traveled west to meet up with
  • Allied troops and surrendered, not
  • wanting to be captured by advancing
  • Soviet troops from the east.
  • Under Operation Paperclip, nearly
  • all the remaining V-2s and their
  • production equipment was crated
  • up and shipped to Fort Bliss, Texas
  • along with von Braun and his team.

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Dr. Werner von
Braun (1912-1977)
  • They continued their work
  • in New Mexico, later moving
  • to the Redstone Arsenal near
  • Huntsville, Alabama.
  • Von Brauns team was
  • responsible for the Jupiter-C
  • missile that launched Americas
  • first satellite as well as developing
  • the Saturn V rocket that took men
  • to the moon.

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A Brief History of Rocketry Its Great Pioneers
FOUR OF THE GREAT ROCKET PIONEERS Dr. Werner von
Braun (1912-1977)
  • He was always a prominent spokesman for space
  • exploration and founded the National Space
    Institute
  • public interest organization (which later
    merged with
  • the L-5 Society to form the National Space
    Society).

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