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Candlestick Rocket Ship That's good news for the rocket industry, because this paraffin fuel would be much simpler and safer to work with than the toxic, explosive fuels used today. In contrast, today's solid-fuel rockets use solid materials such as perchlorate compounds as oxidizers, and the fuel and oxidizer are mixed together before being packed into the rocket. Rocket launches are still so rare that the total pollution they emit is tiny compared to that from cars, airplanes, and coal-fired power plants. science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2003/28jan_envirorocket.htm   (1239 words)

Rocketship4 The engineers tried to put several rockets, or bigger ones, so they could have more thrust, but the ship became aft heavy, and upon igniting the rockets the thing took off and then plummeted into the ocean, disintegrating in the depths, and the still ignited rockets raised from the depth to fly uncontrolled. Born was the multi tube incendiary rocket launcher, the FireStorm, mounted on a pivot at the front of the ship. When moving under rocket propulsion, the ship cannot be boarded, or rammed, and enemy will have to roll 4+ to target the rocket ship with weapons. www.geocities.com /red_zebra_ve/Rocketship4.html   (1397 words)

Rocket Ship Galileo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rocket Ship Galileo is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1947. Although the Nazis destroy the boys' rocket, the teenagers steal a Nazi rocket and expose a Nazi base on Earth. The 1950 movie Destination Moon was loosely based on Rocket Ship Galileo, and Heinlein was one of three co-authors of the script. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rocket_Ship_Galileo   (243 words)

Dan Zanes: Rocket Ship Beach A note from Dan Zanes: This is rocket ship beach, a record of children's music for the whole family. After you have made your purchase, the last page will display a download button allowing you to instantly retrieve your song. Dan Zanes with Donald Saaf and the Rocket Ship Singers www.musicforlittlepeople.com /Audio_Recordings/Downloads/Dan_Zanes/Rocket_Ship_Beach   (212 words)

SPACE.com -- 'Rocket Ship' Shoves Off to Carry New Delta 4's to Launch Sites WASHINGTON A futuristic "rocket ship" the length of a football field was launched from the banks of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi on Thursday morning as a ferry vessel for a new class of big boosters. The French government uses ships to moves its Ariane rockets across the Atlantic to launch pads in Kourou, French Guiana, and Boeing uses ships to move its SeaLaunch rockets from Long Beach, Calif., to the Pacific where they are launched. The rocket is a follow-up to the Delta 3, which flew twice, in August 1998 and May 1999. www.space.com /news/rocket_boat_991216.html   (628 words)

Amazon.com: Rocket Ship Galileo: Books: Robert A. Heinlein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Rocket Ship Galileo is the first novel in the author's juvenile series, depicting the initial flight to the Moon. Rocket ships are used routinely to carry passengers and freight to the ends of the Earth. In addition, the legal issues of allowing a nuclear powered rocket to take off, spewing material out the exhaust that had been exposed to hard radiation, would be formidable; induced radioactivity may have a short half-life, but still detectable, and some people have hysterics if the sun is shining too bright. www.amazon.com /Rocket-Ship-Galileo-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0345260686   (2246 words)

Rocket ship loops into space -- and glides home safely / First privately financed spaceflight -- 'Yeeee-haw!' Melvill said he also heard a frightening bang at another moment, which may have been a portion of the flange around the rocket motor crumpling under the enormous stress of the rocket burn. It has a large rocket nozzle at the rear of the fuselage that sent it soaring at more than three times the speed of sound, straight up, before gliding back down. The craft floated free of the mother ship, then soared out of Earth's atmosphere with a rocket burn of a little more than one minute, a thick white contrail in its wake. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/22/ROCKET.TMP   (1005 words)

rocket As I just said, Tom built his rocket ship so that he could enter the International Rocket Society's world-wide "race into space." The Rocket Society had posted a $100,000 prize for the first person to pilot a rocket into space and circle the Earth in a two-hour orbital flight. When a rocket was launched in the old days (or even today in some parts of the world) it subjects its astronauts to titanic G-forces: enough force where, if it is not properly taken care of, it could squash the astronauts flat and kill them long before they ever got into space. Tom's rocket had ignition at zero: presumably, the rocket left the ground some seconds after the countdown was over. www.tomswift.info /homepage/rocket2.html   (4807 words)

Forum Thread : Rocket Ship Club :. GarageGames A rocket ship is designed so that, when you enter it and fire a burst at short range at a ResourceObject, it propels you at a insanely fast speed for many miles in the direction the rocket was pointing. NOTE: Rocket ship levels may only be played by registered users, as you require bursts. I am working on creating the perfect rocket- the difficulty is maintaining a consistent speed that everyone will enter the launching chamber at. www.garagegames.com /mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=28919   (883 words)

Jetex.org: Plans - Rocket-powered Aircraft As for the actual type of rocket to be employed, the plan advises the use of 1¢ aerial torpedoes. He regarded twin boom craft as particularly "suitable for rocket drive", given that they had "plenty of space behind the centre of gravity, so that the efflux can be directed away from the model". He also favoured tailless models as "suitable for rocket drive", since it was "possible […] to fit a rocket in the tail end of a model. jetex.org /models/plans/plans-air-rocket.html   (1503 words)

Atomic Rocket: Beginning Design As an interesting side note, rockets constructed of aluminum are extremely vulnerable to splashes of metallic mercury or dustings of mercury salts. The ship will also have heavy gyroscopes that will help prevent the ship from falling off its tail, but there is a limit to how much imbalance that they can compensate for. His civilian clothes he would ship home, of course, and his telephone as well, since it was limited by its short range to the neighborhood of an earth-side relay office... www.projectrho.com /rocket/rocket3e.html   (4779 words)

Starship Modeler - Buck Rogers Rocketship I originally won this rocket as a door prize at the 1999 IMMA National Model and Hobby Show in Chicago. Since I have no interest in launching rockets, I thought it might be interesting to use my imagination to turn it into a static model. It was also fun since I didn't have many reference photos of a 1950's sci-fi rocket ship, to use my imagination on the final style and detail of the ship. www.starshipmodeler.com /was/ls_rocket.htm   (618 words)

Classic Science Fiction Reviews He intends to create a radical new rocket ship that can do the impossible: fly to the moon. Famed as the basis for the Heinlein-scripted motion picture Destination Moon (1950), Rocket Ship Galileo may be the weakest of his 14 YA books. Part of the problem is merely the passage of time: Rocket Ship Galileo is the oldest of Heinlein's juveniles, and its events are extrapolated directly from the scientific developments and Nazi crimes of World War II. www.scifi.com /sfw/issue348/classic.html   (589 words)

Rocket Ship Galileo - Robert A. Heinlein Rocket Ship Galileo is the first book-length expression of Robert A. Heinlein's love affair with the Moon. Rocket Ship Galileo was originally published as the first of a dozen Scribner's science fiction juvenile or young-adult novels by Heinlein. Heinlein compressed the moon-rocket enterprise in Rocket Ship Galileo, as he admitted elsewhere: what should have been the work of forty men is done here by four. www.troynovant.com /Franson/Heinlein/Rocket-Ship-Galileo.html   (1104 words)

Science Netlinks: 3-5 E-Sheet Adjust your ship's thrust and take-off angle using the lever and dial on the control panel. When the motion of the rocket ship is changed, that motion is changed by a force. For instance, when the thrust starts, it moves the rocket ship from a standstill (which is not very fast) to go flying through the air. www.sciencenetlinks.com /Esheet.cfm?DocID=111   (406 words)

It's a Bunny - Rocket ship boy - Aaron Paulson The three booster stages of the rocket itself: four feet in total of heavy cardboard tubing and almost as tall as Two Bits, standing under chalk marks drawn on the kitchen wall. Billy unravels the twin wires attached to his ship's engines, leads them around the side of the service shed to the car battery ripped from one of the cars that park under his balcony at night. There is a sudden flaring of blue fire at the base of the rocket, and the ship lifts, surprisingly slowly at first, off the pounded aluminum foil launch pad. maclawran.ca /bunny/b02/fict/ap-boy.html   (2284 words)

How to make a Rocket Ship! I'll show you one way here, while there's a picture of a slightly different looking Rocket Ship on the "What Is It" page. To create the smaller version Rocket that will be shown here, you'll need six strands of boondoggle: one that is 4 feet long, and five that are 2 feet long. The Rocket shown here measures two and a half inches long, from tip to lowest end of engines; three and a half inches long if you include the tassels that make the fire. www.boondoggleman.com /prj_rocketship.htm   (1599 words)

SPACE.com -- New Rocket Ship Carries Delta 4 Rocket Parts to Cape Canaveral A key feature of the Delta 4's operation is the use of a Common Booster Core, or CBC, a rocket stage that measures some 150 feet (45 meters) long and 16 feet (5 meters) wide. But this is the first time that rockets destined to fly from the Cape have finally grown so large that routine water delivery to Port Canaveral has become a necessary consideration. Christened the Delta Mariner during a Dec. 16, 1999 launch ceremony, the rocket carrying ship passed its sea trials in April 2000 and then spent some time at Foss Maritime's Gulf Caribe operation in Mobile, Ala., for outfitting and crew training. www.space.com /missionlaunches/launches/delta_mariner_010705-1.html   (961 words)

First private rocket ship goes supersonic - 18 December 2003 - New Scientist The craft, called Space Ship One (SS1), also become the first such craft to break the sound barrier, reaching a top speed of 930 mph (1490 km/h). The flight, exactly 100 years after the Wright brothers made their historic flight, marks a big step to winning the $10 million X Prize for private spaceflight. Flying a person in a privately financed rocket as Scaled Composites has now done was "definitely one of the major hurdles" towards the X-Prize, Diamandis says. www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn4499   (586 words)

Amazon.ca: Rocket Ship Galileo: Books: Robert A. Heinlein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) He skillfully introduces elements of conflict at an early stage of the story, (as sinister forces seem to be trying to prevent the voyage from taking place) and he even manages to build some suspense, an effect Heinlein is not usually noted for. His descriptions of the mechanics of the moon rocket and its voyage are both convincing and interesting, despite being badly dated. A handful of young rocket enthusiasts and a instructor build a rocket ship and go to the moon utilizing their own wits and resources. www.amazon.ca /Rocket-Ship-Galileo-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0786248580   (1436 words)

DEA Resources, Microgram, October 2005 The two men had tested a similar rocket filled with 2 pounds of gravel that reached a height of about 1,200 feet and, based on the results of that test, expected the plastic bags containing the ice methamphetamine to melt or disintegrate and the drugs to scatter into the air. apprehended the men, searched the vehicle, and discovered the rocket as well as devices that appeared to be pipe bombs hidden in the trunk. Officers with the MSHP bomb squad and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were called to the scene and determined that the devices were PVC pipes constructed to resemble pipe bombs. www.usdoj.gov /dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/mg1005/mg1005.html   (4555 words)

Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Boeing sets sail with world's newest rocket ship Today a 312-foot rocket ship will be launched from the banks of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. Common booster cores are the building blocks of the Delta 4 family of launch vehicles, and house the rocket's main engine, fuel tanks, and first-stage avionics. Delta 4 common booster cores, the size of commercial airplane fuselages, will be carried on and off the ship by specialized mobile transporters via the ramp in the stern of the vessel. www.spaceflightnow.com /news/9912/16delta4ship/index.html   (614 words)

Bozo and his Rocket Ship When children hear the roar of the rocket ship taking off, it's a signal to turn the page to see as well as hear Bozo's next amazing adventure. In addition to the original records and illustrated Record-Reader album, an audio CD of "BOZO and his ROCKET SHIP" will be sent along with your order. In preparing your custom "BOZO and his ROCKET SHIP" Compact Disc, every effort has been made to digitally reduce some of the minor pops, ticks and surface noise that show up on all 78 rpm records without sacrificing any of the highs or "liveliness" of the original recordings. www.wecollect2.com /Bozo_and_his_Rocket_Ship.htm   (379 words)

Flash Gordon The Flash Gordon rocket ship is a pretty simple shape, a hemispherical nose and a hemi-elliptical body. I'm not sure why two fins broke off like this (the rocket was recovered by children before I could find it), but my guess is it came down hard on two fin tips and sheared them off. The weight of the rocket did not change significantly so the only real change was the move in C.G. due to the larger fins. www.jcrocket.com /flashgordon.shtml   (2867 words)

Private rocket ship breaks space barrier - The New Space Race - MSNBC.com In addition, Melvill had to deal with a roll of the rocket plane during its ascent, and was surprised by an unexpected booming sound. Afterward, Melvill and Rutan said the boom was apparently caused by the buckling of a fairing that was added to the rocket plane's engine nozzle for this record-setting flight. SpaceShipOne had a large supporting cast for the main show: For takeoff, the rocket plane was nestled beneath its alien-looking White Knight carrier airplane, another of Burt Rutan's creations. www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5261571   (1559 words)

Naked man 'waiting for rocket ship' found - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review A naked man found this morning in the ladies room of a Squirrel Hill synagogue was "waiting to catch his rocket ship," police said. Officers believe the man might have become drenched from wading in a pond or fountain on the synagogue grounds. When officers asked the man why he was in the stall and why he wouldn't leave, police said he responded that "he was waiting to catch his rocket ship." pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/trib/newssummary/s_202447.html   (240 words)

Sleep: Relaxation Rocket Ship Looking across the living room, the challenge of unwinding this over-tired little angel, who is currently doing somersaults on the couch, may seem impossible. They then begin the preparations for being launched into space (which probably includes brushing teeth and whatever else is a necessary part of your child's minimum bedtime routine). Your child gets to be the astronaut and you will be NASA or "command central." (What you want to keep in mind is that for the first minute or so, you want this to seem exciting. parenting.ivillage.com /tp/tpsleep/0,,43b2,00.html   (257 words)

Rocket Ship - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) This is a theme compilation -- 34 rock & roll songs dating from the late 1950s and early 1960s, hooked around flying saucers, space ships, satellites, Sputnik and similar subjects, though mostly they're about sex. There are some serious professional musicians represented, such as country-rockabilly veterans Alden Holloway (pictured with a double-necked guitar) and Dell Vaughn, but some of this CD is in a loose, wild rockabilly vein. Carl & Norman's "Shooting for the Moon" is a different twist, a comical harmony number (with nice piano ornamentation dressing up a basic country band backing) that equates a failed rocket launch with frustrated romantic possibilities. www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,869105,00.html   (299 words)

Amazon.com founder's rocket ship complex to open early next year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Plans also call for construction of an experimental stand where rocket engines will be tested in three-minute-long trial runs. Founded in 2000, Blue Origin is one of several private rocket enterprises fuelled by the dreams and dollars of wealthy entrepreneurs. The company is designing a spacecraft that will take off vertically like the classic sci-fi rocket, land the same way and carry three passengers. www.cbc.ca /cp/business/051225/b122522.html   (690 words)

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