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Q: How do rockets propel a spaceship forward?
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Is it grammatically correct to phrase propel forward?

'Propel' means 'drive forward', so 'propel forward' means 'drive forward forward'. Better to avoid it!


How rockets help us explore space?

Rockets provide force that can propel ships forward, even in the near vacuum conditions of space. Propellers can provide force only in a substantial atmosphere.


What is another word for rockets?

spaceship


What were rockets used for originally?

to propel Chinese flaming arrows in war


Who the first to use rockets during a war?

chinese, to propel flaming arrows


What makes flying devices propel forward?

The engine.


How do airplanes propel themselves forward?

They either have a piston engine with a propeller or a jet that thrusts them forward.


What starts with p and means moved or pushed forward?

Propel


How do spacecraft move?

They use big fuel powered rockets that generate a huge amount of thrust to propel them.


Applications of rocket engine?

Mostly to propel rockets, those going into space, and those carrying explosives.


Rockets move forward because?

because a rocket makes an explosion that is stopped at one end and so can only go the other way. one of the laws of physics is every action has an equal and opposite reaction which, in this case, moves the rocket.One word: thrust, when gas is propelled out the back of the rocket it provides the amount of thrust needed to propel the rocket forward.


What is the name of action reaction engines that propel an object forward?

rocket