Rocket pioneers & scientists - Rocketry history (till WWII)

Early rocketry:

• Rocket history - Chinese fire-arrows
  
  
• India: Mysorean rockets
  
  
• UK: William Congreve rocket - Congreve rocket in France
• William Hale rocket
  
  
• Germany: Early history - Alfred Maul rocket - Opel-Rak - Verein für Raumschiffahrt
  Kummerdorf - Mirak rocket - Repulsor rocket - Winkler rocket - Magdeburg Project - Peenemunde
  
  Aggregate family: A-1 - A-2 - A-3 - A-5 - A-4b - A-4 (A-4b) SRBM - A6 - A7/A8 - A9/A10 - A11
  
  C-2 Wasserfall - Rheinbote SRBM - Rheinbote - Rheintochter
  
  

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  A4/V2 rocket:

  A4/V2 - V2 (German rocket legacy)
  Mobile operations - Mobile front - Deployment - Mittelwerk - DORA
  German exp V2- blizna launches
  

  Launched points:

  A-4 launches from Peenemunde - A-4 launches from Blizna (Poland)nog te doen
  V2 Battery 444 - V2 Battery 485 - V2 Battery 836 - V2 Battery SS Abt 500 - V2 Gruppe Nord - V2 Gruppe Sued
  
  Wikipedia: V-2 rocket facilities of World War II
  Trailer: Wikipedia: Meillerwagen
  External links:
  • Postwarv2: A-4 rocket-fotos'
    
  • AWehrmacht history: A-4 rocket
    
  • V2Rocket.com: Descriptions and pictures
  • RussianSpaceWeb: Descriptions and pictures
  • Worldwar2facts.org Descriptions
  • Spaceline.org Descriptions

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• USA: Goddard - Rocket Experiments by Dr Robert H. Goddard 1926-1945.
  ARS-rockets
  
  
• Russian: Origins of Russian rocketry - Soviet rocketry - Rocketry before WW II - GIRD
  Gas Dynamics Laboratory - RS-82 nd RS-132 rockets
  The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974 (Big file!!)
  
  
• France: Denisse rockets - Damblanc rockets - EA41 - Astronautics: EA1941
  
  
• UK: RP-3 (British 3 inch rocket)
  
  
• China: Project 714 - Project 863