Geography 2090A/B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Soltyrei, 25143 Itokawa, Solar Sail

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British pick up rockets from india, used to attack british, who used to attack. Konstantin tsiolovsky (school teacher) developed basic theories of rocket flight into space. Oberth, romanian working in germany, developed technical aspects pre. Werner von braun developed military rockets for germany in ww2 (launched pennemunde/baltic against uk: surrendered to us, developed space flight rockets. Sergei korolev chief designer ussr missiles to spacecraft: most rockets launched from kazakhstan. Sputnik: fellow traveller," world"s first artificial satellite (ussr, 1957: sputnik 2 carried first living organism, dog named laika, us version explorer 1. Us surveyor 1 first american robotic landing four months later, 4 more surveyors: luna 13 robotic landing. Ranger 7 first american probe, crashed into moon. Gall"s theory moon a cloud of dust, could not be walked on, people would sink. Photography had to be scanned and developed from space. No systematic imaging by russians had to use america images.