According to the principle of rocket, the rocket was first invented by China people. The name of the rocket first appeared in China's ancient books during the Three Kingdoms period (AD 220-265), but at that time, the so-called rocket only tied flammable materials to the front end of an arrow and then shot it with a bow or crossbow. Only in the Tang Dynasty and the early Song Dynasty (A.D. 10 century) were rockets using gunpowder recorded. For example, Feng Jisheng, Yue, and other officers in the Northern Song Dynasty presented rockets and rocket methods to the court, but these rockets only used gunpowder instead of flammable materials, and the rockets themselves were launched with crossbows. Although the exact age is still controversial, at the latest in the 12 century, rockets that use gunpowder as fuel and fly by jet have appeared.

The study of modern rockets began at the beginning of the twentieth century. 1930, tsiolkovsky, a scientist from the former Soviet Union, published a paper entitled "Using Jet Tools to Study Space", which laid the theoretical foundation for rocket navigation. Robles. Goddard, an American scientist, published a paper "The Way to Reach the Extremely High" in19/9, and successfully developed and launched the first LiquidFuelRocket on 1926 March 16, which became a milestone in rocket control technology.

Goddard developed and launched the first liquid fuel rocket.

When World War II broke out, Germany developed the V-2 military rocket and used it to attack Britain. After World War II, the United States improved V-2 technology and made it into an A-4 rocket, which was first launched on May 1946, becoming the first rocket to fly into the upper atmosphere of the earth.

V-2 military rocket

19571On October 4th, the former Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite "Sputnik 1" by using the modified SS-6 (sapwood) carrier rocket, marking the official beginning of the human space age.