Rocket pioneers & scientists - Rocketry history (till WWII)
Astronomers
Imagination, Dreams, Writers
Rocket pioneers & scientists
Rocket engineers
Early rocketry:
Rocket history
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Chinese fire-arrows
India:
Mysorean rockets
UK:
William Congreve rocket
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Congreve rocket in France
William Hale rocket
Germany:
Early history
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Alfred Maul rocket
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Opel-Rak
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Verein für Raumschiffahrt
Kummerdorf
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Mirak rocket
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Repulsor rocket
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Winkler rocket
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Magdeburg Project
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Peenemunde
Aggregate family:
A-1
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A-2
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A-3
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A-5
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A-4b
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A6
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A7/A8
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A9/A10
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A11
A-4 SRBM
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A-4b SRBM
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A4B
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A6
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A9/A10
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A11
(NIET OP INTERNET)
C-2 Wasserfall
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Rheinbote SRBM
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Rheinbote
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Rheintochter
A4/V2 rocket:
A4/V2
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V2
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V2 (MW)
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German experiments with V2 (launch log)
(NIET OP INTERNET)
Mobile operations
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Mobile front
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Deployment
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Mittelwerk - DORA
(NIET OP INTERNET)
External links:
V2Rocket.com:
Descriptions and pictures
Worldwar2facts.org
Descriptions
Spaceline.org
Descriptions
USA:
Goddard
- Rocket Experiments by Dr Robert H. Goddard 1926-1945.
ARS-rockets
Russian:
Origins of Russian rocketry
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Rocketry before WW II
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GIRD
France:
Denisse rockets
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Damblanc rockets
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EA1941
China:
Project 714
- Projecct 863
External links:
Wikipedia:
Early Russian rocketry
V2 rocket
La Coupole en France
International Geophysical Year:
Description
Postal mail:
Description
Austria:
Friedrich Schmiedl
Germany:
Gerhard Zucker
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Reinhold Tiling
India:
Stephen Smith
Update: 9.10.2025
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