Rocket

Rocket

!A [Soyuz-FG rocket launches from "Gagarin's Start" (Site 1/5), Baikonur Cosmodrome](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/SoyuzTMA-9launch.jpg/250px-SoyuzTMA-9launch.jpg)

Rocket

Rockets for military and recreational uses date back to at least 13th-century China. Significant scientific, interplanetary and industrial use did not occur until the 20th century, when rocketry was the enabling technology for the Space Age, including setting foot on the Moon. Rockets are now used for fireworks, missiles and other weaponry, ejection seats, launch vehicles for artificial satellites, human spaceflight, and space exploration.

History

!Rocket arrows depicted in the [Huolongjing: "fire arrow", "dragon-shaped arrow frame", and a "complete fire arrow"](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Oldestdepictionofrocketarrows.jpg/250px-Oldestdepictionofrocketarrows.jpg)

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