Foguete: revisão histórica e impactos na sociedade

Abstract

This work presents a historical review about the evolution of rockets, from the primitive rockets used by the Chinese in the beginning of the thirteenth century to the modern rockets built in the last decade, showing the main changes in rocket engineering and showing how we can fit the study of Basic physics from rocket launch. Therefore, the objective of this project is to describe the evolution of rockets and discuss the impacts, positive and negative, that space vehicles have provided for society, that is, how the economic, technological, social and environmental aspects were and are being influenced by the use of the rockets. Furthermore, we seek to deliver a poster that can be used as a didactic tool by basic education teachers to deal with this content. As it is a work that aims to describe the facts and discuss them, this is configured as a bibliographic and exploratory research, analyzing the data mainly in a qualitative way. Thus, we seek the content mainly in books and articles, in the online form through the Google Scholar search engine. In the results, it was observed that individual works were important for the evolution of aerospace vehicles, but after government investments and the desire to demonstrate sovereignty were fundamental factors for the leverage of rockets. Finally, we note that governments have reduced investments in space aviation and private companies are perhaps starting a new space race, seeking to provide society with experiences never seen before by civilians.