From the first rocket-like devices to sputter steam and spin off into the distance, to the first man to set foot on the moon. The abridged version of rocket history after some quick googling and helpful wikipedia pages. some wikipedia links if you want to read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archytas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_arrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Schmidlap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_de_Laval https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11 https://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/TRC/Rockets/history_of_rockets.html