5 amazing facts about Rockets

The first rocket landed in a cabbage patch The first-ever liquid-fuelled rocket was launched by American Robert Goddard on 16 March 1926, although the Chinese used solidfuel rockets a thousand years prior. Goddard’s rocket climbed 12.5m (41ft) before crashing in a cabbage patch. However, he was widely derided for suggesting a rocket could one day take humans to the Moon. The Saturn V was heavier than 400 elephants Coming in at a massive 2.8 million kg (6.2 million lb), the Saturn V is the most powerful rocket to have ever been launched. It was as tall as a 36-storey building and could take the equivalent of ten school buses into Earth orbit, while the amount of fuel it used could have driven a car around the world 800 times. Paint…

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