Rockets: a kidcyber weblink page

http://www.spacetoday.org/Rockets.html

http://www.howstuffworks.com/rocket.htm

How to build your own
http://www.flyrockets.com/work.html

... and here's a bubble-powered rocket
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/rocket.shtml

http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/Propulsion/zoom-conventional.html

The history and the inventors are here
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrocket.htm

There's a timeline of rocket science here
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/science/space/rocket_timeline.html
Did you Know? For entertainment, the Greek mathematician, statesman and philosopher Archytas used steam escaping from inside a wooden pigeon to propel the bird along a wire. In 400 BC!

Here is a picture of the largest NASA rocket
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950829.html

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January 2007