A reqular high altitude rocket in simple planes. Controls: 1=parachute 2=gyroscope 3=drop stage 8=engines History facts about rockets: the first ever rocket was used back in the 10th century in china for arrows, robert goddard built and launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, during world war II nazi germany developed the first missile called V-2, after WWII United States developed a super sonic aircraft called Bell X-1 the aircraft that will be the first manned vehicle to go past the speed of sound, later the soviets developed their own rocket modled off the V-2 rocket called R-7 in which helped launched the first satelite, Sputnik 1, and sent a the first man in space Yuri Gagarin, soon United states started their own rocket program but all they developed is nuclear missiles for the cold war, finaly the U.S. started its own space program and started project mercury, project gemini, and the apollo program, project mercury goal is send space probes to take pictures of interplanetary planets like mars and venus, project gemini was to test out space stations and soon later the soviets launched mir the first multi-module space station, the apollo program was made to test out the largest rocket the saturn rocket, in 1969 the U.S. launched the saturn V to the moon with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, a year after the apollo 11 mission the soviet union did its own lunar mission with the sightly smaller rocket called N1 and all launches failed, years later saturn V launched the largest space station, skylab. Thats all the fact i'm giving you i don't want to make the description long.