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A rocket is a spacecraft or any projectile object that uses a rocket engine to move forward. Rockets are more efficient in the vacuum of space than in the Earth's atmosphere as their engines are powered by reactions that expel exhaust in the opposite direction of movement at high velocities.
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NOV 24, 2015Space & Astronomy
Perhaps one of the biggest hurdles of getting people into space is the cost. Whether it’s the long tried and true ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 23, 2015Space & Astronomy
NASA has signed a deal with SpaceX to have the California-based, Elon Musk-owned space company send its future astronaut ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 19, 2015Space & Astronomy
After a very valuable asteroid passed by the Earth this July, carrying with it several tons of platinum worth an estimat ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 15, 2015Space & Astronomy
It’s not uncommon for rocks or other debris from space to enter Earth’s atmosphere. Most of the time, a lot ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 06, 2015Space & Astronomy
A little over one year ago, on October 28th 2014, NASA tried to launch the Antares rocket by Orbital Sciences (now known ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 25, 2015Space & Astronomy
Earlier in the month, NASA revealed publicly the agency’s plans to try and send humans into deep space missions wh ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 16, 2015Space & Astronomy
Part I of this article explained how a team from MIT has come up with a revolutionary new weight and cost-saving plan fo ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopOCT 16, 2015Space & Astronomy
Going to Mars is something we Earthlings have wanted to do for centuries. By some estimates, we’ve had the necessa ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopOCT 09, 2015Space & Astronomy
Mankind has been considering the idea of putting astronauts on Mars for the longest time, but this week, NASA has offici ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 08, 2015Space & Astronomy
If NASA had decided to make a next generation of the space shuttle, it probably would have looked a lot like the Sierra ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopOCT 07, 2015Space & Astronomy
Well, it’s finally happened. A private company has committed to landing its own craft on the moon. An Israeli team ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopOCT 01, 2015Space & Astronomy
Most of the time when you see a rocket going off into space, whether it’s to launch a spacecraft into space, land ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 21, 2015Space & Astronomy
While the US is developing hyper-sonic vehicles to deliver explosive payloads or to do surveillance, researchers at the ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopSEP 17, 2015Videos
Billionaire Elon Musk does a lot. It seems like he never sits still. He owns a car company at the cutting edge of techno ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 12, 2015Videos
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka has returned home via a Russian Soyuz capsule, breaking the record of the amount of ti ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 11, 2015Space & Astronomy
You may know that SpaceX and Tesla, the electric car maker, are run by the same man, Elon Musk. In the new images Space ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopSEP 07, 2015Space & Astronomy
Remember how exciting it was when Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon? Those footsteps changed the world. It’s been ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAUG 16, 2015Space & Astronomy
Space travel has always been about going higher, further, faster. That isn’t just a quote from superhero Captain M ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAUG 06, 2015Space & Astronomy
So there's the average jetliner that cruises at about 550 miles per hour, which is subsonic. There was, until 2003, the ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUL 31, 2015Space & Astronomy
The biggest obstacle in the quest to put manned missions into deep space has always been the time it takes to get there. ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 22, 2015Space & Astronomy
Just last month, three astronauts from the International Space Station returned to Earth: Terry Virts of NASA, Samantha ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 20, 2015Space & Astronomy
It was just a few weeks ago that NASA's commercial SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft failed to deliver supplies to the Internat ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 19, 2015Space & Astronomy
Asteroids are rocky bodies that orbit the Sun along with all of the planets. Many of them are relatively close to the Su ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 15, 2015Space & Astronomy
It turns out, we've got a big problem circling above our heads. It's getting worse with each passing day, and if we don' ...Written By: Andrew J. Dunlop
NOV 24, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Perhaps one of the biggest hurdles of getting people into space is the cost. Whether it’s the long tried and true
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 23, 2015
Space & Astronomy
NASA has signed a deal with SpaceX to have the California-based, Elon Musk-owned space company send its future astronaut
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 19, 2015
Space & Astronomy
After a very valuable asteroid passed by the Earth this July, carrying with it several tons of platinum worth an estimat
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 15, 2015
Space & Astronomy
It’s not uncommon for rocks or other debris from space to enter Earth’s atmosphere. Most of the time, a lot
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 06, 2015
Space & Astronomy
A little over one year ago, on October 28th 2014, NASA tried to launch the Antares rocket by Orbital Sciences (now known
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 25, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Earlier in the month, NASA revealed publicly the agency’s plans to try and send humans into deep space missions wh
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 16, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Part I of this article explained how a team from MIT has come up with a revolutionary new weight and cost-saving plan fo
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
OCT 16, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Going to Mars is something we Earthlings have wanted to do for centuries. By some estimates, we’ve had the necessa
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
OCT 09, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Mankind has been considering the idea of putting astronauts on Mars for the longest time, but this week, NASA has offici
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 08, 2015
Space & Astronomy
If NASA had decided to make a next generation of the space shuttle, it probably would have looked a lot like the Sierra
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
OCT 07, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Well, it’s finally happened. A private company has committed to landing its own craft on the moon. An Israeli team
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
OCT 01, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Most of the time when you see a rocket going off into space, whether it’s to launch a spacecraft into space, land
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 21, 2015
Space & Astronomy
While the US is developing hyper-sonic vehicles to deliver explosive payloads or to do surveillance, researchers at the
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
SEP 17, 2015
Videos
Billionaire Elon Musk does a lot. It seems like he never sits still. He owns a car company at the cutting edge of techno
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 12, 2015
Videos
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka has returned home via a Russian Soyuz capsule, breaking the record of the amount of ti
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 11, 2015
Space & Astronomy
You may know that SpaceX and Tesla, the electric car maker, are run by the same man, Elon Musk. In the new images Space
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
SEP 07, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Remember how exciting it was when Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon? Those footsteps changed the world. It’s been
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 16, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Space travel has always been about going higher, further, faster. That isn’t just a quote from superhero Captain M
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 06, 2015
Space & Astronomy
So there's the average jetliner that cruises at about 550 miles per hour, which is subsonic. There was, until 2003, the
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUL 31, 2015
Space & Astronomy
The biggest obstacle in the quest to put manned missions into deep space has always been the time it takes to get there.
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 22, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Just last month, three astronauts from the International Space Station returned to Earth: Terry Virts of NASA, Samantha
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 20, 2015
Space & Astronomy
It was just a few weeks ago that NASA's commercial SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft failed to deliver supplies to the Internat
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 19, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Asteroids are rocky bodies that orbit the Sun along with all of the planets. Many of them are relatively close to the Su
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 15, 2015
Space & Astronomy
It turns out, we've got a big problem circling above our heads. It's getting worse with each passing day, and if we don'
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop