Rocket Boys

I needed to build a water rocket that would be aerodynamic, light, and have the ability to glide down to elongate flight time. I started out researching different bottle rocket designs to find what would work best. While researching, I found that having a slimmer bottle on top of the base bottle, versus having two regular sized soda bottles would be more aerodynamic and would allow me to give the rocket a more “bullet” shaped body. When looking at fins, those with larger fins worked more…

you’ve gone and done it. You've gotten yourself tangled up in rockets. Now the average run-of-the-mill person won't care a bit about it and will back right out, but if I were you, which i'm not, I would make the best of the situation. So being a kind and considerate person i will try to explain just what is a rocket, a little bit of history and a whole lot of science. To start I must first explain the concept of the humble rocket. A Rocket, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is a…

throughout this book. There was two themes that I picked up on during this story, perseverance and friendship. Rocket and the little yellow bird grew closer and created a bond that was important to both of them. Rocket was sad when the bird left, but was happy again when she returned. True friendship can withstand any amount of time apart and any distance. Their friendship held true to this. Rocket persevered through the hard times of learning and continued to do so. When learning to spell,…

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 first stage is ignition, (when the engine of the rocket ignites) the force acting upon the rocket is…

There once was a monkey named Jim. He was sitting in his mother’s family room which had the sun shining through. He was listening to the sounds of the rocket launching on the TV. He saw the flames that came out of the bottom, and the American flag painted on the side. He was watching the moon launch, and he was thinking that he wanted to ride in the rocket when he grew up. Jim later asked his mom if he could be an astronaut one day, and his mom said, “You can be whatever you want if you put in…

74 THE R.CA.F. OVERSEAS R. Reesor were scrambled and directed to two FWs. flying due south of Shoreham at 24,000 feet. Morrison closed in and riddled one with repeated bursts. The FW. flew steadily on its course in a gentle glide and crossed the French coast at 2,000 feet. The Spitfire pilot, flying close alongside, could see the German airman slumped over his controls, apparently dead: the aircraft had become a flying coffin carrying the body of its pilot back to France. Meanwhile Reesor had…

reusable rockets a sustainable possibility for the future? What are rockets? Rocket technology is extremely wasteful, and being a one shot wonder, they show no promise of a sustainable future. When a rocket is launched, it is propelled based upon newton’s 3rd law of motion; “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” This is done by using on board propellant which is then used to create thrust from a rocket engine, by ejecting thrust in the opposite direction to the rocket, it…

The Orion Shield Project is a project created to develop a stronger new stronger and durable material that can extend the lifecycle of the rocket Shuttle Launch Booster. For this specific project, Gary Allison a former Project Engineer at Scientific Engineering Corporation (SEC), was appointed as Project Manager after graduating with a Ph. D. in mechanical engineering. Gary thought he was ready for the new position and assignment, but the reality was different. He encountered several…

movie “October Sky”, Homer and the rocket boys dedicate the final rocket launch to all of their mentors. Throughout the movie Homer’s father didn't believe in what Homer was doing, his father was so one minded about what career Homer should go into, that he couldn't accept the facts Homer was doing what he loved. Homer still thought is was very important to have his father launch the final rocket, as well as dedicate it to his parents. If I were launching a rocket in honor of the mentors in my…

to the oppositions suggestions for what the money should be spent on has been done. NASA’s funding is so low that it can’t even launch their own astronauts up to the International Space Station, instead they buy a seat on one of Boeing or SpaceX rockets, and still no money is going towards the things they suggested. Another argument they don’t realize that’s invalid is that NASA does nothing. Throughout their research, development, and launch of ships into space they have created several pieces…