Propellant

It was the year 3026 when the Musk colony dimmed it fit to send someone to the red planet, a planet that use to be known as Earth. Around the year 2025 when the first musk ship landed on Mars, so many people called them mad, the media said they were never going to survive; Little did they know that Mr Musk, the madman that spearheaded this exploration had his own survival plan, not just for him but for the 250 crew members with him. Now centuries later, that madness; that single act of…

The Columbia Shuttle was the oldest shuttle in the NASA fleet. On January 16, 2003 Columbia Space Shuttle’s 28th mission took place. Eight seconds into the launch a piece of foam insulation broke off from the propellant tank and hit the left wing of the shuttle. The cameras used to capture the launch could not focus accordingly on the shuttle while taking off; crash engineers could not pinpoint exactly where the damage took place. On February 1, 2003 Columbia Shuttle broke down while when…

Delaware. This was the beginning of an extensive scale gunpowder production in the United States. Guncotton, also known as nitrocellulose, was invented in 1845 by German chemist Christian Schonbein. The purpose of this invention as to create a propellant for military weapons but soon realized that guncotton was extremely fast and had the potential to be very dangerous. However, in 1860, the Prussian army utilized guncotton into a tiny cartridge creating a bullet. By 1880, guncotton replaced…

needed help figuring out calculations. One of the men was married to a woman named Barbara Cartwright. She was really good at numbers. Barbara Cartwright calculated speed, Trajectory, combustion among many other things that helped with rocket and propellant development. Her findings helped out with future projects. As JPL continued the amount of women who calculated grew. Marcie Roberts, was in charge of the human computers. Marcie only hired women for the department. The women’s calculations…

audience and has no purpose to write said article outside of educating the reader. “A couple of years ago, researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre discovered a thruster system which actually generates thrust, despite requiring absolutely no propellant.” (Paragraph 1, Line 1) Personally, I do not believe this is a quality opening hook, simply because it would only be engaging towards and audience with previous knowledge of astrophysics and space travel. This opening statement might…

create an explosion, making the need for more storage space for oxygen. Needing refrigeration to cool oxygen and turn into a liquid at -183 C (-297.4 F). Then he had to take gasoline and put that and the oxygen into fuel tanks. After that the two propellants are pumped into a combustion chamber where they combine and heat up causing an explosion. This is called a controlled explosion. This explosion creates hot gases that then shoot out of the nozzle at the bottom of the…

Magnets create magnetic fields, which can attract or repel metal objects. Magnets are utilized in motors, circuits, compasses, and can be used in many other applications. They are also used in something called the Gauss Rifle, which can use magnets to launch a projectile at high speed. It is made up of one or more magnet stages, which consists of a magnet and two ball bearings on one side. The number of magnet stages can determine how fast or how slow the projectile can go. It should be noted…

Every year on Valentine’s Day, my school hosts something we call the “Civility Assembly”. In the afternoon, the entire school is called to the auditorium, and are presented with an unscripted, straight-from-the-heart presentation from the staff. This year, the theme was “Home”. A former Wahconah graduate who entered the marines gave a speech about the value of home to him and the results of a staff interview as to “Why Wahconah is Home to Me” was presented, among other things. While there were…

German by the name of Johann Schmidlap created the first multistage rocket. After this rockets kept getting better and better. Rockets at this point were still solid fueled until an american man named Robert H. Goddard created a rocket with a liquid propellant. This was a huge leap because you could now control when the rocket was lit and when it wasn’t.(NASA) This basically is it for the history of rockets. As technology advanced so did the rocket all the way till the first man reached the…

This experiment was done to see what variables (weight, wind, friction etc.) affected the apogee of the rocket. The class did this by recording everyone's rocket weight and compared them to the apogee's after they had been launched. Due to different variables, the apogee might be affected in a variety of ways, one being the weather. After the class found all of the data, it was compared and analyzed for any patterns. The rocket had different forces acting upon it during the flight stages. The…