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It allows astronaut's, Satellites and other items to be sent into space. The problem through is that rockets are basically fireworks. The fuel leaks out of the tank and is set on fire pushing the rocket skywards, but once the fuel has started burning it can't stop, so if anything goes wrong while going up into space your scuppered. A more reliable way of sending things into space would be to use a kind of plane/rocket ship that flies through the atmosphere like a plane and then uses thrusters to propel it once it's left the atmosphere.

NASA has considered this and had one in planning, but they never got round to making one, but if they did, the risk factor for each mission would be reduced drastically as well as making space travel allot easier and cheaper.

In the end, rockets are needed for the time being, but they arn't the best solution to space exploration.

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