Q: Only one Gemini capsule was given a name; which one.
A: The first capsule was called Molly Brown by Astronaut Gus Grissom.

Q: What NASA Center built the Explorer 1 spacecraft?
A: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Q: What is NACA?
A: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

According to legend, Wàn Hǔ (d. ca. 1500) was a minor Chinese official of the Ming dynasty who attempted to become the world's first recorded "astronaut". After strapping 47 rockets to a wicker chair, he had 47 servants ignite them at the same time. With a roar of flame and smoke, he was never seen again. The crater Wan-Hoo on the far side of the Moon is named after him.

"The rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air" tell about an attack of 32-pound English Congreve rockets on our Fort McHenry in 1814. They were a new weapon of war, with a range of about three miles.

The name Rocket comes from the Italian Rocchetta (i.e. little fuse), a name of a small firecracker created by the Italian artificer Muratori in 1379.

Although the first recorded mention of rockets in battle was by the Chinese in 998 A.D., fireworks were mentioned as early as 282 A.D.