Because it's moving a smaller mass. The first stage of the rocket has to move the whole vehicle. By the time you're ready to fly on the third-stage engines, you've burned up the fuel in the first two stages and separated from them.
The third stage of a multistage rocket can go faster than the first stage because it is lighter and has fewer engines to carry. As each stage burns its fuel and separates, the rocket sheds weight, allowing the remaining stages to accelerate more easily due to a lower overall mass.
it is dropped off the rocket and either burns in the atmosphere or lands in the ocean
The first multistage rocket was invented by German scientist Hermann Oberth in the early 1920s. He proposed the concept as a way to achieve greater altitude and speed in rocketry by using multiple rockets that ignite sequentially.
The first stage is jettisoned, to fall back to earth, as the fuel runs out.
Multistage rockets were first proposed in the early 20th century, with significant contributions from pioneers like Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who published his ideas in 1903. However, the concept gained more traction in the 1920s and 1930s, particularly with the work of Robert H. Goddard and Hermann Oberth. Their research laid the groundwork for the development of practical multistage rocket systems in later decades.
Nothing has ever gone faster than the speed of light.
It gives the initial boost to get the rocket off the ground, as the fuel burns up it empties the stage, so to get it into space the first stage ejected to lighten the load and the second stage ignites. and so on. This is an almost out dated system, but occasionally it is still used.
USSR's Sputnik was the first rocket to go to space successfully probably ade a lot before though.
If things work as planned, the first stage uses up its fuel, and falls away, while the engines of the second stage ignite and push the rocket into a higher trajectory. This point in the launch sequence is called (predictably enough!) "staging", and it is at this point that things generally go terribly wrong if they are going to. You rarely hear of a rocket in which the second stage works properly and then the THIRD stage fails. When the fuel of the second stage is exhausted, then it, too, falls away while the third stage pushes the rocket into its final orbit, or off into the solar system. This "stages falling away" part is why the USA launches its rockets from Cape Canaveral in Florida; the discarded stages fall harmlessly into the Atlantic Ocean.
There really isn't a name for his rocket, though it launched it on March 16, 1926 in Auburn, Mass.
No. In fact rocket science was just developing in the 1940's and the ability to send a man to the moon didn't exist until the late 1960's. Things like computers are needed, the ability to built a multistage rocket, and other inventions / science had to be developed first.
Because it's moving a smaller mass. The first stage of the rocket has to move the whole vehicle. By the time you're ready to fly on the third-stage engines, you've burned up the fuel in the first two stages and separated from them.