Humans have achieved groundbreaking feats in space exploration, reaching distant stretches of space with missions like Voyager 1. However, none of this would have been possible without rockets.

When was the last time you thought about how a rocket moves through space? The average person is likely to know the basics of how planes direct themselves through the atmosphere, but rockets?

MnB₂ releases about 20% more energy per unit weight and is roughly 2.5 times as energy-dense as aluminum powder [2], the standard metal fuel in today’s solid rocket boosters. This means rockets could ...

Whether in the real world, depicted in cartoons, or in a hobbyist's back yard, rockets always seem to have fins. Or if not fins, at least some other kind of protrusions along the outside — they're ...

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