SOYUZ LAUNCH VEHICLEHOW ROCKETS WORKSATURN V THREE-STAGE MOON ROCKETBIOGRAPHY: ROBERT GODDARD American, 1882-1945FIND OUT MOREThere would be no space exploration without rockets, but they are…
HOW DO ROCKETS WORK? PROPELLANTFIND OUT MORESpacecraft are launched into space by rockets—the only engines powerful enough to overcome Earth’s gravity and lift objects into space. Most spacecraft…
(Encyclopedia) rocket, in botany, popular name for several plants of the family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae; mustard family). The dame's, or damask, violet, damewort, or sweet rocket is Hesperis…
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Relative positions of the components of the Saturn V rocket, the U.S. space vehicle used in the moon missions
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educator, publisherBorn: 1914Birthplace: New York City A gifted linguist, he graduated from Yale in 1936 and began running his grandfather's intensive language-teaching business. As the need for…
(Encyclopedia) Goddard, Robert Hutchings, 1882–1945, American physicist and rocket expert, b. Worcester, Mass., grad. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (B.S., 1908), Ph.D. Clark Univ., 1911. From 1914…
Can Water Make a Bottle Rocket Fly Higher?Intermediate-Level Science ProjectsPhysical ScienceCan Water Make a Bottle Rocket Fly Higher?Downhill Discoveries We think of rockets as being fairly…
(Encyclopedia) Oberth, Hermann Julius, 1894–1989, Austro-German astronautical pioneer, b. Hermannstadt, Austria-Hungary (now Sibiu, Romania). Beginning his studies in astronautics before World War I…
(Encyclopedia) Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin EduardovichTsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovichkənstəntyēnˈ ĕdwärˈdəvĭchˈ tsēōlkŏvˈskē [key], 1857–1935, Russian inventor and rocket expert. He lost his hearing…