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Rocket
A rocket is an elongated flying vehicle driven by a rocket engine, carrying all its propellant and so needing no surrounding air; gunpowder rockets evolved in China under the Song dynasty by the 13th century. The Mongols spread them to the Middle East and Europe, and the iron-cased rockets of Mysore were the model for Britain's Congreve rocket of 1804. Modern rockets date from 1926, when Robert Goddard fitted a supersonic nozzle to a high-pressure combustion chamber, and in 1944 the German V-2 became the first artificial object to travel into space.
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- First known
- 13th century
- Where
- China
- Credited to
- Song Dynasty
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See also
Cite this entry
- APA
- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Rocket. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/rocket
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- “Rocket.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/rocket. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “Rocket.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/rocket.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Rocket’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/rocket (Accessed: ).
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