Neil Armstrong Research Paper

Neil Armstrong was the first person ever to walk on the moon, although it was a great leap for mankind before the famous leap there was many other steps that needed to be taken before actual space travel. The earliest step towards modern rockets was the rocket arrows created by the chinese, the first recorded use was in 1232. With many years in between the next large step into rocket travel was around 1720, Willem Gravesande began experiment with cars powered by jets of steam. Next in 1898 a Russian School teacher, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, began to theorize with the idea of space travel with Rockets and the usage of Liquid fuel (Benson).
A Professor at Clark University named Robert Hutchings Goddard expanded on his ideas by building and officially

After reading H. G. Wells' science fiction novel The War of the Worlds he became interested with space and rocket travel. This fascination would lead him to get his bachelor's degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a PHd in Physics from Clark University. While studying at WPI he launched a gunpowder rocket in a basement in 1907, luckily for him instead of expelling him the Institute took interest in his work. Sadly this is one of the few times other people showed interest in his work, this forced him to work as a Professor at Clark while also experimenting. When he first started in 1915 he could only get 2% of the potential energy to be used in kinetic energy, the other 98% creating heat and light(Redd). Knowing that solid fuel was simply not efficient enough for space travel he started to work with liquid

His multi-stage rockets pioneered the idea which today is now a common place in rocket science. Multi-stage rockets are important because any rocket that needs to reach space cannot do it with only one engine. A Multi-stage rocket can have many stages but the largest is the first. The first stage not only has to carry itself but also the other stages that are not helping, basically it carries all the dead weight. The first stage continues to produce thrust until it runs out of fuel, then the important part happens, to reduce weight and increase versatility the stage falls off. The next stages are smaller because of this, after they are used they follow and just fall off. Goddard was not the first person to create this idea but his rockets helped in their journey to usage by almost every modern rocket. Again referring to Space X, both the Falcon 9 and Falcon heavy have multi-stage designs. This shows yet another time that Goddard help shape the modern rocket science with his early