According to most historians, the first rocket was built in China in 1212. These rockets used solid fuel (coal, wood, etc.) and gunpowder. According to a Chinese legend, a man named Wan Hu built a vehicle fitted with rockets. Attaching 47 rockets to this vehicle, Wan Hu got into the vehicle, but the vehicle exploded after travelling a few metres. It took until the late 1800s for rockets to be fully understood. Although the British Army used rockets in the War of 1812 between Britain and the USA, it did not have a significant effect on the course of the war. Germany, the USA and Soviet Russia were most influential in the development of rocket science. Space Travel Society In Germany, this process can be divided into two as pre-Nazi and Nazi period. Herman Oberth, who thought that the first rocket studies should be initiated in Germany, mentioned the importance of this situation in his book ‘The Rocket Towards Planetary Space’ published in 1923. This book led Johannes Wink...
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