... I have been informed by Bad Reader Lauren Pomerantz (from The California Space and Science Center ) that polar rockets are launched towards the South, to avoid populated areas if the rocket should fail. ...
... They figured it might be the booster rocket that put them on their way to the Moon. ... The rocket, called an SIVB, had accelerated them out of Earth orbit two days earlier ...
... The scheduled launch is in October of 1997 using a Titan IV-Centaur rocket. ... even in a worst case scenario -- the crash or explosion of the rocket while still in the Earth's atmosphere -- the chamber will ...
... used computer graphics to stitch the image of the X-71 onto a shuttle rocket stack ... footage from two or three different rockets whenever Captain Nelson went into space ... You'd see an Mercury rocket miraculously change in to a Saturn. ...
... to stay with the IKON as he blows it out of harm's way using the onboard rockets ... You don't just aim a rocket and touch it off! ... Add to that the velocity from the rockets needed to break from low orbit and you ...
... You could turn a bunch of rockets upside-down and fire them so they push down on the Earth. ... But even with powerful rockets it would take essentially forever to move the Earth by any measurable amount. ...