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- Rocket Boosters
- Chapter 3-1
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- Booster : first part of
a multipart rocket
that provides thrust for launching
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- built in sections called stages
that vary booster power to launch payloads into space
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- The minimum speed
required to launch a
vehicle into space
is 17,500 mph
- As the 1st
stage burns out
and falls away
the 2nd stage
ignites and provides thrust
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- The Scout is
the smallest launch
vehicle with payload of
400 lbs
- Delta is workhorse of
space program placing 600 lb payload into
100 mile orbit
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- Saturn V - America’s moat powerful staged
rocket
- launched the
Apollo 11 lunar landing
in 1969 &
Skylab Space Station in 1973
- 2nd & 3rd stages burned
liquid hydrogen
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- Saturn V - with the
Apollo spacecraft and
its small emergency escape
rocket on top,
stood 363 feet
tall and developed 7.75
million pounds of
thrust at liftoff
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Notes
