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Landon Salazar

Mrs. Morris

Period 3

Sep. 22, 2017

Rockets Just More Rockets

All rocket in the history of mankind was made to do a task that we cannot do.

Some rockets like fireworks were made to entertain, others were made to explore

space, and some for transportation. Rockets are good in many ways but some are

dangerous. For example the temperature under a rocket could melt iron and many

others that will melt before that of temperature point. Men have always wanted to go to

the moon but there is not just pros to the situation.

In a nutshell rockets were used in 1232 for entertainment for chinese emperors in

festivals. Before this around 100 BC some people started making things move with

making a form of pressure with steam. The idea to use steam as a rocket was never

done as an experiment until a couple of years ago. For the chinese they use gunpowder

rockets to launch arrows for war purposes the people called them arrows of flying fire.

This gave someone the idea to make missiles or warheads to kill even more people with

explosions.

Many people have been killed by rockets but the first idea to ride one happened

in 1898. A teacher, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky had the idea for using rockets for space

travel. To even go to the moon you must have a bachelor's degree in a STEM subject,

have 3 years of professional experience or a 1000 hours of being pilot in a jet, and to

pass NASAs physical test. The test includes having 20/20 vision with or without glasses
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and some sort of G force training. Also many people don't want to and get to nervous to

do a part of the training and are rejected.

If you become an astronaut when in a space station or rocket there is no gravity.

When their is no gravity your leg muscles could deteriorate and when you return to

earth you would not be able to walk ever again. Unless in the space station you work

out a lot but you would not feel tired even if you did it for two hours. In the past some

rockets have failed to launch and some people were killed in the accident. This makes

any space travel dangerous and there are many other risk that may occur.

If not for Konstantin Tsiolkovsky the evolution of rocket science would have been

slowed by hundreds of years. With every risk we take for science may kill us sometime

but we do it out of curiosity. Many people say curiosity killed the cat well it is more like

curiosity killed the man. To even get into NASA there are many requirement but some

people are fine with been on the ground instead of taking a big risk. So rocket are

extremely dangerous in or near one may cause some sort of death.

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. 2017.

<https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/TRC/Rockets/history_of_rockets.html>.
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Dunbar, Brian. "Astronaut Requirements." NASA. NASA, 08 Apr. 2015. Web. 25

Sept. 2017.

<https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/features/F_Astro

naut_Requirements.html>.

"How Hot Is the Rocket Engine?" NASA. NASA, 30 Sep. 2014. Web. 22 Sept. 2017. . .

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