1. Rockets & Spaceflight  Black Powder Rockets  Chinese - Sung Dyansty (960-1276 AD) ????  Sir William Congreave  British Inventor  Built Rockets Which Were Used Against Napolean (1809)  Stability - Stabilizing Stock  Dangerous  Poor Accuracy  Harpooning Whales  Jules Verne & H.G. Wells

2. Robert Goddard  American Physicist  First Successful Liquid-Fuel Rocket  March 16, 1929  Very Secretive

3. German Rockets  Pulse Jet  Described - 1909  Patent - 1931  Paul Schmidt  German V-1 - “Buzz Bomb”  Peenemunde, Baltic Coast  First Flight - 1942  German V-2 (Shown)  Werner von Braun  First Flight -1944  1100 Hit England  Liquid Fuel Rocket  Allied Bombers (200:1)  New York ??????

4. US Versus USSR  Greatest Prize Of WW II  German Rocket Technology  US  von Braun’s Scientists Surrendered To Allies  Peenemunde Technical Archives  V-2 Hardware  USSR  Occupied Peenemunde  V-2 Production Plants  V-2 Technicians  US Won

5. USSR Space Milestones  First Satellite - Sputnik I  October 4, 1957  First Man In Space  April 12, 1961  First Woman In Space  June 16, 1963  Disaster - April 1967  Re-Entry  Salyut I - 1971  Salyut 6 - 1980  Refueled By “Progress

6. US Space Milestones  Vanguard Destroyed - Public View  December 6, 1957  First In Space - Alan Shepard  First To Orbit - John Glenn (1962)  First Spacewalk  Gemini - 1965, 1966  Disaster - January 1967  Grissom, White, Chafee  First Man On Moon - Apollo 11  Neil Armstrong  Saturn V  Firrst Shuttle Flight - April 1981  Disaster - January 1986  Challenger