An advanced guide to rockets

By Noel Woolley

World War 1 started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated on June 28, 1914. This was not the immediate cause but there were a series of events which triggered the war..

Over 17 million people were killed in the First World War and the impact it had on the old empires and the politics of the world was enormous, but what were the causes of WW1 and how did it start. only soon will you know why i’m talking about war not rockets.

If America and Russia had a choice to do world war again or not, they could say yes. For it brought the thought of actually going to the moon on rockets.In 1883 the russian schoolteacher Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote about people going to the moon in serious terms all other books were a bit nonsensical. An example is in 1865 Jules Verne wrote that some humans could go to the moon using a bombshell sort of machine.

On the left is a picture of the Jules Verne theory. When the war was going on the young man,Von Braun used Konstantin’s ideas to make his most famous masterpiece, the missile.It had in the first two thirds of the rocket there was fuel area and in the bottom there was a long and short motor assembly.In the top there was a monstrous 997 kilograms of bombs.

This was as Neil Armstrong would say a small step for mankind a giant LEAP for man!As this when people thought that maybe,if we got more power in the rocket we could go to the moon. From then the space race began and the first, most successful mission was Sputnik 1 were the first satellite went to space. This was a threat to the US army as they could attack any continental country with ballistic missiles.

Next was the launch of Sputnik 2 were Laika went into space. Unfortunately the heat stabilizer broke and the dog died. America were enraged at this because their rockets were still exploding on the pad. Soon Yuri Gagarin went to space with no problems.

14 rocket launches later NASA went to the moon. This was a great success for America, Nixon, and most importantly NASA themselves.

If we hadn't gone to the moon, we wouldn't know many things and it would’ve been likely that Russia and America had gone to war. So we must thank all the scientific brains that came before us… who knows? You could be the next one.

The end.

Or so we think………………...