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Rockets Facts
- The largest rocket is the Russian Proton rocket. It's 200 feet tall and can place over 44,000 pounds of cargo into low Earth orbit.
 The amazing Space Shuttle:
- Each of the Shuttle's solid rocket motors burns 5 tons (5,080 kilograms) of propellant per second.
- The speed of the gases exiting the nozzle is more than 6,000 miles (9,656 kilometers) per hour, about five times the speed of sound or three times the speed of a high-powered rifle bullet.
- The plume of flame ranges up to 500 feet (152 meters) long.
- The insulation of the fuel tanks on a Saturn V rocket is so good that an ice cube placed inside one would take eight years to melt.
- A rat named Hector "piloted" one of France's first space rockets in 1961.
- In 1921, the New York Times printed this in an editorial claiming rockets couldn’t work in space:
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
The Times published an apology to Robert Goddard in 1969, the day after Apollo 11 left Earth orbit for the Moon.
Rockets Web Sites
www.bomarc.com/Rockets/Rocketlist.htm
Detailed information about different rockets
science.nasa.gov/BeyondRocketry.htm
Ideas for the future of space propulsion
spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/ds1_mgr.htm
Launching a rocket from a spinning planet
seds.lpl.arizona.edu/ssa/docs/Space.Shuttle/index.shtml
Space Shuttle Clickable Map
www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bgmr.html
Beginner’s guide to model rockets
connect.larc.nasa.gov/pdf/xplane.guides.pdf
Templates and instructions to build a paper model of X-33, a NASA experimental vehicle
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