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How do extreme temperatures affect rockets?

metal gets very hot at high speeds

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What is rotation?

the turning of something, like a car wheel

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Why can't rockets use rotation to make them go, unlike cars?

because rockets don't have wheels

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What kind of engine do rockets use instead?

reaction engines

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Why do you need two firefighters to hold the hose?

the force of the water is very strong

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What force do rocket engines produce, instead of water?

high pressure gas

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Name the three parts of the Space Shuttle?

The orbiter, the big external tank and the two solid rocket boosters

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What did Sir Isaac Newton discover?

a scientific principle which says that every action has an equal reaction

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If the ____ __ _____ was too strong for the firefighters, they would go flying back in the opposite direction.

jet of water

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These hoses throw out a weight of water that produces a ______ in the opposite direction.

force

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A rocket engine is generally throwing ______ in the form of a high-pressure gas.

mass

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The burning process __________ the mass of fuel so that it comes out of the rocket at high speed.

accelerates

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The SRBs burn for about two minutes and _______ about 3.3 million pounds of thrust each at launch.

generate

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What a rocket needs is a _______ ______.

reaction engine

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The three main engines burn for about eight minutes, generating 375,000 pounds of ______ each during the burn.

thrust

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If you have ever seen the Space Shuttle _______, you will know that there are three parts...

launch

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