... Ranging from "the rockets red glare" of William Congreve s early military rockets, to the V-2, Sputnik and today s satellite orbits, the part devoted to spaceflight tells how rocketry developed and describes the roles of Goddard, Von Braun, Von Karm n and ...
... Ranging from "the rockets' red glare" of William Congreve's early military rockets, to the V-2, Sputnik and today's satellite orbits, the part devoted to spaceflight tells how rocketry developed and describes the roles of Goddard, Von Braun, Von Karm n ...
... heat] and meteorite protection) Humans: Legs Spacecraft: Rocket motors, fuel tanks (Because objects in motion tend to remain in motion, most spacecraft do not need to constantly burn fuel to move; their small rockets [thrusters] are used to change their ...
... The Wind Spacecraft NASA's " Wind " spacecraft was launched 1 November 1994 by a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral. ... It still carries a large reserve of fuel for its rocket engine. ...
... Equipped with an on-board rocket and an ample supply of fuel, ISEE-3 was later moved to the Earth's distant tail and still ... Such a spacecraft must have its own rocket engine. ...
... credited with the first observation of auroral electrons from a rocket; incidentally, the idea of the IGY itself started in ... A web site with a picture of the Explorer-1 rocket and with links. ...
... It's been cynically said of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun that "he aimed ... for a Martlet Mark IV, a rocket-assisted projectile that would ignite in flight and ...