• Question: when were rockets made and how long did it take?

    Asked by autemn to Jim on 9 Mar 2016.
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      Jim Barrett answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Depends on what you mean by rockets. The chinese invented fireworks, which are kind of like rockets, around 800 years ago.

      If you’re talking about rockets like space rockets, the earliest really good ones were in the 1960s, I think they take a long time to make, years even.

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