They invented the rocket yes but not anything that went high enough to go into space, these were gun powdered rockets, the kind we use in fireworks displays, Not spacecraft.
In China.
The ancient Chinese had rockets.
really far back with the Chinese who invented gun powder
The Chinese invented both gunpowder and rockets. Gunpowder was invented nearly 3000 years ago, and rockets a short time after that.
The Chinese invented gunpowder and used it to power rockets hundreds of years ago. Then Marco Polo, from Europe, visited China, and told his fellow Europeans about the Chinese, their use of gunpowder and rockets. Then Europeans further developed gunpowder and rockets.The Chinese.
Rockets were invented by the Chinese many centuries ago.
The Chinese invented gunpowder, which they used in making explosive rockets for war as well as for making fireworks, about 1,000 years ago.
The earliest rockets were invented by the Chinese around the 12th century, A.D. They used gunpowder as a fuel.
Around 499 AD. The Chinese ignited saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal in hollow bamboo tubes to shoot projectiles - including rats. These rockets were actually called 'flaming rat rockets'.
A simple rocket like you fire on the 4th of July is a solid propellent rocket. It is a tube filled with gunpowder that is attached to a stick. The Chinese invented these rockets back around ~1200 AD.
No, the Chinese had rockets thousands of years earlier, but they were solid fueled and unguided.
Robert H. Goddard made the first liquid fuel rocket the first solid fuel rocket was by the Chinese as early as 1000 ad