Earth & Space

How Rockets Fly

Name: How Rockets Fly
Duration: 78 s
Description: Newton's 3rd law made of fire. Throw mass down → get pushed up. Works in space too.

Newton's 3rd law made of fire. Throw mass down → get pushed up. Works in space too.

A rocket weighs as much as a SKYSCRAPER. How does it leap off the ground? And how does it KEEP going in space — where there's nothing around to push on?

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