Rockets go up, zoom through the sky, and then vanish. But after they leave the atmosphere, there’s more to their story. Imagine a balloon that you let fly, it floats higher and higher until it pops. A rocket is kind of like that balloon, but much faster and cooler! Once a rocket is out in space, gravity takes over, and it might keep going on its journey or come back home depending on what mission it has.
Examples
- A rocket flies up like a balloon in the sky.
- When it leaves the atmosphere, there’s no air to slow it down.
- If it goes fast enough, it might go around Earth forever.
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See also
- What If We Dug a Tunnel Through the Center of the Earth?
- How do commercial rockets achieve reusability?
- How will SpaceX Starship's orbital flights change space travel?
- What are cosmonauts?
- What are astronauts?