We just learned about the HMS Erebus Rockets.
Another part of rocket science history is the book Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon.
In the late 1800s the famous science fiction writers Jules Verne and H. G. Wells wrote books about things that might happen in the future like rockets or space travel.
Because of some of these books, many other people came up with scientific inventions that helped make better science for how to shoot rockets.
(from: wikipedia - de la tierra a la luna)
Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Megathrust
