• Question: What is a rocket made of.

    Asked by 892nenp26 to Tiernan, Sonia, Mossy, Maureen, Bernard on 13 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Bernard

      Bernard answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      Rockets are made from a tube filled with a propellant like gunpowder.

    • Photo: Maureen

      Maureen answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      Rockets are made of all sorts of different materials! Depending on what it’s doing, they have heat shields and ceramic tiles that protect astronauts. They have a lot of jet fuel to help them get to space! They have cool robotic arms made of alloy metals (lots of metals together) that help them grab things!

      There’s a really funny comic explaining a rocket using only the 1000 most common words in the English language. It’s pretty funny! https://xkcd.com/1133/

    • Photo: Sonia Lenehan

      Sonia Lenehan answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      They have lots of different parts and types of material! https://spaceflightsystems.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/rockpart.html
      the link above talks about this and is really interesting!

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