ROCKETS The evolution of the rocket has made it an indispensable tool in the exploration of space. For centuries, rockets have provided ceremonial and warfare uses for the ancient Chinese, the first to create rockets. The history of the rocket is extensive and the three sub-pages below explore different aspects of rockets and rocketry. The field of rocket science is expansive, but one does not need to be a rocket scientist to garner the understanding of rockets, provided on these sub-pages. Exploration of space is performed in other ways (observatories, and radio satellite dishes), but for today, and perhaps many more years, rockets will remain king of "this new ocean" of space. Rockets, by breaking new frontiers in this cosmic ocean, have allowed the "dream," that carried such great explorers as Columbus and Magellan, to materialize in a world absent of uncharted seas. Science is exploration of the "truth," and by coupling it with rockets' exploration of space, we receive a product that not only charts the foreign sea of space, but improves our sense of placement in the universe. Man was "the measure of all things," but he has stepped out of this cave of complacency, searching for an understanding. In 1969, with modern rockets, man made another step, as Neil Armstrong placed his foot on the moon--breaking the limits of earth--transcending man to a greater state of being, where he is no longer one with just the earth, but one with cosmos. The rocket, as evolved through science, has given us an invaluable understanding of ourselves, as well as the "ocean" that envelopes us. Where rockets will take us tomorrow is unfathomable, as their development in dependant on the random discoveries of science. And to this one might step so far as to say that "rockets are the measure of all things"--but we will have to wait for time to unfold to ascertain this.
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