Geography 2090A/B Lecture 2: GEO 2090-LECTURE 2
5 Feb 2016
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Space history - sputnik to apollo and zond. Space age started on october 4, 1957 with the launch of. Sputnik, the first satellite, by the soviet union. The origins of space flight could be traced back to ancient stories of flight (lucian of samosata; johannes kepler) and the invention of rockets in china. Samosata: in 160 a. d. , many centuries before the time of isaac. Newton, the greek satirist lucian of samosata wrote an account of how ulysses" ship had been caught up in a whirlwind and carried on a 7-day flight to the moon. China: the chinese began experimenting with the gunpowder filled tubes. At some point, they attached bamboo tubes to arrows and launched them with bows. Soon they discovered that these gunpowder tubes could launch themselves just by the power produced from the escaping gas. Rockets were used against u. s. forces by the british army during the.
