History of Space (travel)

History of the Space Travel

It all started with Chinese weapon rockets, used to scare enemies and of course to kill them.
However, the first real rockets were made by the rocket scientist Wherner Von Braun.
But before him people had ideas of traveling trough space with rockets.
The writer Jules Verne (1828-1905) in his book: journey to the moon. Jules Verne
He named the project Apollo, which is the same name the Americans used in there project that landed on the moon in 1969.
Wherner Von Braun lived in WW2 he was a scientist for the Nazis. Wherner von Braun
He developed the V1 nd the V2, both were German cruise missiles.
When the Americans and Russians defeated the Nazis.
The Americans captured Wherner Von Braun and made him work for them.
The Russians captured other not so well-known scientist. That was the war between the Russians and the Americans.
In that war there was a race to space. Where both factions tried to be the first in space.
Because if you could develop a weapon in space, you could shoot at people from space.
There were a series of spacecraft developed by both sides.
But the most well – known must be the Appollo 11 and 13 .
Because the 11 landed in 1969 on the moon.
This was the first spacecraft that brought humans to the moon.
And the Appollo 13 is known because the oxygen tank exploded.
The crew made it back to earth.
After that there have been several more spacecraft, including the space shuttles.

The origin of the universe

First you have to understand how big the universe is. This video will help you understand.



There are two ways to explain the origine of the universe.
The first one is very simple to explain -> GOD, the second one is the big bang and is harder to explain but i'll try.

The Big Bang:



Big Bang is the popular name for the theory that says that 13.7 miljard years ago the univers arose from a very close hot small sort of ball.
On the same time as the Big Bang space and time wold arise.
The theory is based on on the perception of the constant growing universe, especially the moving of the lightd far away in the galaxy, the dopplereffect.

Here you can see how the universe grew

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