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Rice Rockets Rice Rocket Car
764 wordsA thunderous roar echoes throughout the once quiet neighborhood. I hear the revving of engines. Suddenly there is a loud screeching of tires pealing out across the pavement. The sound of the engines becomes even louder than before, then quickly decreases as the cars speed away. There is quiet for a few minutes, then the whole thing repeats again. This is a common occurrence in my neighborhood and always means one thing. Its those racers in their rice rockets again! To the layman, a rice rocket i...
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Liquid Fueled Rockets Liquid Fueled Rocket Fuel
901 wordsA rocket is a device that does not need atmospheric oxygen to burn its fuel, since it carries its own, either separately or in chemical combination with fuel. Rockets are propelled forward by gas or liquid being expelled backwards. Rockets work on a fundamental law of motion by Sir Isaac Newton that states, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This helps explain how rockets fly on earth and in space. For example, the rocket fuel is exploded in a controlled way so that the ex...
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October Sky By Homer Hickam
733 wordsOctober Sky was written by Homer Hickam. Describes Homer growing up in the small mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. He became fascinated with rockets and began the BCMA (Big Creek Missile Agency), to make rockets and discover what made them fly. Written as an autobiography about his life. The story takes place in a small coal mining town in West Virginia from 1957 on. The main form of conflicts in October Sky are man vs. man. Homer Hickam wants to fallow his dreams and be successful in his ...
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Star Traveling To The Millennium
1,884 wordsNASA's goal of faster, better, cheaper has been the motivation for them to develop new mission concepts, and to validate never-before-used technologies in space. The new technologies, if proven to work, will revolutionize space exploration in the next century. According to NASA's New Millennium Program home page, last updated on September 16, 1999, NASA's current project of Deep Space 1 demonstrates some of their most exotic technologies. One of the most impressive is the testing of an ion engin...
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Ballistic Missiles Ronald Reagan
1,737 words... a direction of a gas jet may work. However, now designers begin to refuse from the application of gas rudders, replacing them with several additional nozzles or turning the main nozzle. For example, on the American rocket constructed under the project "Avant guide", the engine it is fixed on hinges, and it can be rejected on 5 - 7 O. Really, at the beginning of flight when the density of air is still great, the speed of a rocket is small, therefore rudders badly operate. And there, where the...
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Backbone Of Space Exploration Streets Of New York Powered
653 wordsDo you know what rockets make me think of? ... Nevermind. Actually I have a funny story about rockets and re-entry, so to speak. Then there is the just powered rocket... or is that the rocket powered just? Hmmmm. I think sex, while being very hot, is also very cool. Don? t you think that? s odd? Do you want to see my laser scalpel? It already has real applications just as my obstetric probe. It extends as far as need be and has a small hole at the tip for examining. When it is done it reverts ba...
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Points Per Game Nba Finals
5,287 wordsNumber Head line Page 1. The history of the team 2 - 22 2. The head coach 23 - 26 3. Hakeem Olajuwon 27 4. Charles Barkley 28 5. Scottie Pippen 29 6. Rockets Acquire Pippen 30 - 31 7. Turbo 32 8. glossary 33 - 3 Houston Has Been Home Of The Big Man-From Moses To Ralph To Hakeem The Houston Rockets were introduced to the NBA as the San Diego Rockets in 1967, the same year that the American Basketball Association launched itself as a rival league. Despite boasting the great Elvin Hayes through the...
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