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Spaceflight The Day The World
Changed

• All men dream, but not equally. Those that dream
  at night in the dusty recesses of their minds
  awaken to find that all is folly. But the
  dreamers of the day are dangerous men that they
  may act their dreams with open eyes to make them
  happen.
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  - T. E. Lawrence

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The Paradigm Shifters

• da Vinci
• Copernicus
• Kepler
• Bruno
• Galileo
• Newton
• Verne

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Leonardo da Vinci

• Ornithopter
• Helicopter
• Parachute

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Helicopter
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Nicolaus Copernicus

• First to assert that Earth circled the Sun
• Challenged current thought
• Posited that the Earth was not the center of the
  universe

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Johannes Kepler

• Planets orbit Sun in ellipses.
• Changed our understanding of space.
• Celestial bodies are physical objects whose
  motions are produced by natural causes.

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Giordano Bruno

• Described an infinite universe with stars like
  Earths Sun.
• Suggested that God could create life on other
  planets.

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Galileo Galilei

• First to posit that other planets had moons.
• Concluded that Copernican model (Heliocentric
  Universe) was correct.
• Posited that there might be life on other worlds.

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Isaac Newton

• Published Mathematical Principles of Natural
  Philosophy (1687).
• Law of universal gravitation.
• Laws of motion.
• For every action, there is an equal and opposite
  reaction.

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Jules Verne

• Greatest science fiction writer of the 19th
  Century.
• Published From the Earth To The Moon (1865).
• Influenced Tsiolkovsky, Oberth, and Goddard.

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From The Earth To The Moon
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Gravitys Archers

• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
• Robert Goddard
• Herman Oberth
• Werner von Braun
• Sergei Korolev

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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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Tsiolkovsky

• Father of Russian Rocketry
• Free Space first serious description of
  weightlessness
• Described first throttleable rocket engine
• Conceived of first space station
• On The Moon (1887) and A Dream of the Earth and
  Sky (1895)
• Described advantage of liquid propellants
• Specific Impulse performance is measured by
  amount of thrust produced by one pound of
  propellant in one second

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Robert Goddard

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Robert Goddard

• Father of American Rocketry
• A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes (1919)
• Launched first liquid fuel rocket (1926)
• First to explore practicality of using rocket
  propulsion to reach high altitudes
• First to prove rockets will work in a vacuum
• First to shoot a scientific payload into space
• First to develop gyro control apparatus

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Herman Oberth

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Herman Oberth

• First to suggest liquid propelled rockets for
  military strategic purposes
• Wrote the first treatise on space medicine
• The Rocket Into Planetary Space
• Roads To Space Travel (1929)

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Rocket Into Planetary Space

• Science and technology are capable of producing
  rockets that can climb beyond the atmosphere.
• Such vehicles could reach high enough velocities
  to break out of Earths gravity
• Rockets would be able to carry people into space
• Manufacturing rockets would be profitable within
  a few decades.

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Werner von Braun

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Werner von Braun

• Three Rocket Societies in 1930s
• 1. Society for Space Travel (VfR)
• 2. American Rocket Society
• 3. British Interplanetary Society

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Werner von Braun

• Developed the first space rocket (A-4)
• Led Americas first venture into space rocketry
• Developed Americas Redstone rocket
• Responsible for development of the Saturn V
• Americas most prominent proponent of manned
  space travel

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A-4 (V-2)

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U.S. Space Station circa 1952
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Americas First Satellite

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Saturn V

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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev
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Sergei Korolev

• The von Braun of Soviet Space Program
• Led USSRs first launch of liquid fueled rocket
  (1933)
• Chief Designer of Soviet rockets from 1945-1966
• Designed R-7 ICBM
• Instrumental in Sputnik development

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Sergei Korolev

• Instrumental in sending first robotic spacecraft
  to moon (1959)
• Responsible for design and development of Vostok
  and Voshkod spacecraft

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Sputnik 1
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R-7
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LUNA 3