i was wondering if anyone knows what is a good book or website on rocketry,aircraft, space related things, etc. \n\nit should explain how a rocket or whatever is made.
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http://search.ebay.com/rocket-book_W0QQfkrZ1QQfnuZ1QQxpufuZx\nmy cousin got the first 5 on the list from a bookstore very intereseting nd u learn a lot of stuff or jsut go to amazon or yahoo shopping or froogle
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Howstuffworks has good diagrams and explanations that may help you.  Good luck.
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Hey! I'm looking for reaserach information and I just found a site with stuff about books- Check it out: \n\nhttp://www.questia.com
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All the world governments conspired to cover up the fact that the moon landings did not happen because they needed to develop the necessary rocket technology for war. Holland teaches their children in school that it did not happen. They were in the position to know. Do your own research on that one.\nLook a the book called 'Full Moon' by Michael Light, June 1999. There are six pages in the center of the book that contain 'rectangular suns'. All of the pictures that were ever in dispute are in the book. Use your common sense and look for your self. \nLook at the capsule, if there were parachutes at one end and a heat shield at the other, how did they transfer to the lunar lander?\nThey flew all the way to the moon with two seventy-seven pound computers that only had 48k memory each, uh huh, I've got a bridge to sell you.\nAnybody that has knowledge of thermal dynamics can tell you that the cooling systems that the astro-nots wore would not dissipate enough heat to keep them cool. NASA insists that they were water cooled units, guess what it takes an atmosphere for evaporation to take place. Next what about the lack of a blast zone on the moon by the lander that supposedly created 10,000 pounds of thrust.\nIf they actually did it 35 years ago why will it take them until 2018 to do it again?\nI've been studying this for years and I could go on for hours. Lastly I'll leave you with this thought, why did Walter Cronkite always end the show about a mission with these words? "Brought to you through the magic of Hollywood"\nIt couldn't have happened and it didn't, nothing to get your shorts in a bunch over. \nBut thank you for keeping an open mind, name calling is never nice and too many will call you unpatriotic or stupid or other less desirable names. Don't let yourself be bullied by politics.\nKeep the faith and keep asking the hard questions.\nYours truly,\nMycroft
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Check out the sites below for in-depth explanations.  \nThe first one is from NASA.
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Check thes sites out.\nhttp://www.astro.uiuc.edu/%7Ekaler/sow/sowlist.html\nhttp://space.com/\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/home/
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I used to make rockets when I was young. A lot of them exploded, but I used many different oxidiser/fuel combinations - fuels including aluminium,red phosphorous, carbon, icing sugar, etc and oxidisers like ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate, potassium chlorate, potassium perchlorate, nitrocellulose (home made and lots of fun) but these are not readily availible. The easiest way of making a rocket from readily availible items (not really household items but easy to obtain) would be to use gunpowder (made from flowers of sulphur, sulpheter (potassium nitrate) and charcoal powder). Do an internet search for gunpowder. Tips - be very careful (I take no responsiblity if you hurt yourself), grind the powders as fine as possible - the finer the better - use a pestle and motar, use some sort of binder if possible - even if it's sugar). The rocket shell must be strong and light - learn from the rockets in fireworks - it is easiest to use a cardboard shell with a plaster of paris plug at the top and a plaster of paris nozzle on the other end. I tried metal shells - they heat up quickly, weaken and burst open. Ignite electronically from a distance (use a battery, a long cable and fuse wire in the fuel at the exit nozzle of the rocket). \n\nThere are some general guide lines - you will have to experiment with nozzle design, length/diameter ratios of rocket, fuel composition (burn speed) and ways of packing the fuel. One can make a hollow along the center of the rocket from top to bottom to facilitate gas flow and uniform  burning - check out basic solid fuel rocket designs on the google and the net. There are also various types of launch pads you can use to make sure your rocket is going in a straight line with enough velocity to keep on a straight path. You should also put stabilising fins on the base of your rocket. \n\nWhen you get more advanced, you can include some kind of parachute to deploy when the fuel is spent (using a secondary charge to pop open the cone and release it)\n\nBe sure to launch the rockets in an open field of green grass (to avoid possible fires) and away from any houses or people. There are lots of amature rocket clubs. I suggest you join one and get some advice there. They generally buy their rocket engines off the shelf with fixed burn rates, burn times and total thrust. These are more reliable, more consistent and safer than home made engines. You will have to do lots of research to get all the information you need - and the internet is great for that.\n\nGood luck and remember - safety first!
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Multiple NASA web sites have the info that you seek.\nGood luck with your project and let me know how it turns out?
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C'mon, kid.  Go and read your book and do your homework.  I can understand if you are having problems with one problem, but you are posting this so that others will do your learning for you.  This is simple Newtonian physics.  Three laws you have to work with.  Basic, basic concepts.  If you can't handle this, then might as well give up your dreams of becoming a rocket scientist where you have to deal with special relativities and zero-gravity physics.  \n\nNow get moving!
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because we have the technology to do it, so why wouldnt't we do it? i am myself a physics major and i know for a fact that it is possible. it is not really as hard as you think. you just design a rocket(which isnt much harder than designing a plane) and it just needs a lot of fuel and energy to surpass the escape velocity put forth by the earth's gravitational field, and it just has to be made of a sturdy material with a high melting point so it doesn't melt. once you're in outer space, it does not require much fuel to navigate, and all you have to do is get it to the moon and land... and as far as people being inside, yeah, just add oxygen and reserves of compressed oxygen to make those levels stable(just like they do in airplanes).\n\nalso, i know plenty of engineering majors. NASA offers internships, NASA recruits a hell of a lot of engineers and rocket designers and has way too many rocket designs for none of them to work... also, you can go to a rocket launching and see any of the rockets take off...\n\nbesides from being a physics major and thus knowing that we are actually capable of the technology- also, what reason would they have for making it up? there is really no benefit to it.. just to say "haha, look, we did it"... obviously we are using too many billions of dollars and such on space equipment and programs and rockets(which anyone can go see on tours at NASA). we wouldnt spend that much money on what? to have a nice big laugh at NASA? "haha, we fooled everyone!" come on now...
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Suppose you are taking a space walk near the space shuttle, and your safety line breaks. How would you get back to the shuttle? The thing to do would be to take one of the tools from your tool belt and throw it is hard as you can directly away from the shuttle. Then, with the help of Newton's second and third laws, you will accelerate back towards the shuttle. As you throw the tool, you push against it, causing it to accelerate. At the same time, by Newton's third law, the tool is pushing back against you in the opposite direction, which causes you to accelerate back towards the shuttle, as desired. This is the principle behind jet propulsion: a jet rocket expels fuel rapidly by ``pushing against it''. By the third law the fuel exerts an equal and opposite force against the rocket so the rocket accelerates in the opposite direction that the expelled fuel goes. Another example of the 3rd law is a book lying on a table. If the table were not there the book would fall under the force of gravity between the book and the earth. Why then doesn't the book move off the table, in accordance with the 2nd law? The table is exerting a force on the book that is just enough to cancel the gravitational force on the book. By Newton's third law, the book is also exerting an equal and opposite force on the table, and this is why the table feels the weight of the book. If the book were very heavy, its weight would cause the table to bend, or even break. This is illustrated in the following figure. \n\nThe answer to this question comes from the third law. Imagine the skateboard again. On the ground, the only part air plays in the motions of the rider and the skateboard is to slow them down. Moving through the air causes friction, or as scientists call it, drag. The surrounding air impedes the action-reaction. \n\nAs a result rockets actually work better in space than they do in air. As the exhaust gas leaves the rocket engine it must push away the surrounding air; this uses up some of the energy of the rocket. In space, the exhaust gases can escape freely.
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As others have said, it's all about speed. \n\nIt's a minor point really, but it's a common misconception that it is the friction with the air that causes objects hitting the Earth's atmosphere at high speed to heat up. Actually it's not friction. The heating up is caused by the fact that the air in front of the object cannot get out of the way fast enough, so it's gets compressed in front of the object. As the air gets compressed the pressure rises and as the pressure rises so does the temperature. This is what causes the burning up effect.\n\nWhen a space craft is blasting off into orbit, as its speed rises it's also gaining altitude. At higher altitudes the atmosphere is less dense, so this compression of the air in front of the space craft never becomes a problem.\n\nIf a space craft used its rockets to slow its decent back to Earth then it wouldn't have any problems with burning up on re-entry. The reason they don't do this is because of the weight of the fuel that would be needed to do it. With current technology, no spacecraft could carry that amount of fuel and still be able to get into orbit.
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Greetings! \n\nI have no doubt you actually know the best places to find information Astronomy, I'll preach to the choir and give you some links. And I always check out University sites before anything else.\n\nPersonally I enjoy 'vintage' astronomy like...Kepler's Laws, Centripetal and Centrifugal Force, Elipses, Mean and True Place Of The Earth Or A Planet at Perihelion and at Aphelion ..... \n\nThanks for taking me out of my comfort zone today!  (And don't forget the last link....I read that it's pretty good!)
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<www.howstuffworks.com>\n<en/wikipedia,org/wiki/Main_page>
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You don't need to be a pilot, but it helps! Thanks for picking my answer as the best one for the other question! I love those web sites! As for the stuff to become a pilot, if you fill the astronaut requirements, you are set!
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Check out the NASA's home page www.nasa.com. There you will get everything about what is going on in Nasa.
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Well I like it myself!!\nIf your interested in astronomy etc. I hope you like the following site.\n\nhttp://space.com