• Question: how powerful is a rocket ?

    Asked by minionsareyellow123 james to COLFlight on 6 Oct 2015.
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      Columbus Flight Directors answered on 6 Oct 2015:

      Sergio:
      Hi James,
      there are all kinds of rockets, in all kind of sizes.

      For example, I like to build my own very small rockets using matches. These are probably the less powerful rockets ever 😀 Check out how to do them:

      The most powerful rocket ever built was the Saturn V, the one used to go to the Moon. This had an initial thrust of more than 7 million pounds! To give you an idea, this would be able to lift 1000 big elephants all together! 😮

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