IT'S JUST ROCKET SCIENCE
Enjoy learning about rockets and learning about the latest rocket news!
Bronze Crest
This site is about our experiment and research project which is based on rockets for the Bronze Crest Science Award. It is a STEM project - an abbreviation for Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths - for the British Science Association.
This project will tell you about how rockets function, the latest rocket and space news and the experiment we did. This site will hopefully give you a better understanding about rockets! Here is a quick quiz to see how much you already know about rockets.
This project will tell you about how rockets function, the latest rocket and space news and the experiment we did. This site will hopefully give you a better understanding about rockets! Here is a quick quiz to see how much you already know about rockets.
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Here are the answers to this quiz
ANSWER TO QUESTION 1:
The first ever person to switch on the light of travelling to space is American Robert H. Goddard. He amazingly built and launched the world's first liquid-fuelled rocket in a place called Auburn which is in Massachusetts, on March 16, 1926. The rocket was moving for 2.5 seconds at a speed of about 60 mph, which made it land 55.2 meters away. This rocket was 10 feet tall, made out from thin pipes, and was fuelled by liquid oxygen and gasoline.
ANSWER TO QUESTION 2:
Speed required
Earth to LEO (low Earth orbit)
17,000 mph
Earth to Earth escape
24,200 mph
Earth to lunar orbit
25,700 mph
Earth to GEO (geosynchronous Earth orbit)
26,400 mph
Earth to solar escape
36,500 mph
ANSWER TO QUESTION 3:
Watch this awesome video to get your answer.