We rather to waste a lot more money and time on making many rockets who repeat past experiments to perfection. Instead we could build a large Plasma Rocket space ship on the moon where it could be launch cheaper and safer.
Send astro-naults, scientists, & tourists from the moon as well,
by Wayne Wood
The astronauts land on the moon and also take off from the moon on their Lunar module.
Houston is in the lower portion of Texas, almost off of the Gulf of Mexico.
At 10:39pm EDT, Sunday July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong first set foot upon the moon. 2 hours 36 minutes and 40 seconds later, he was back inside the lunar module. Buzz Aldrin descended the ladder about 15 minutes after Armstrong and re-entered the LM about 15 minutes before Armstrong.
Gravity is weaker because the moon has less mass.
After the sinking of Titanic, an inquiry was put to Officer Rowe regarding the distress rockets and he reckoned he must have shot off about eight. This is interesting because the officers of the nearby SS Californian were inquired about how many rockets they witnessed that same night and their guess was between six-and-ten.
To launch the rocket off the ground and make it go fast.
Actually its the other way around, if a rocket were to launch off the moon it would take less fuel than if it had launched off of earth. It would take less fuel because the moon has lighter gravity.
Rockets take off to carry things (called payloads) into space. Do you mean 'how' do rockets take off, or how do rockets work?
The capsule on the tip of the rocket detaches when it leaves the atmosphere of earth, lands on the moon, then the capsule blasts off the moon and lands in the ocean in a "splashdown".
Your question is very broad. One of the things a rocket takes off from is called a launch pad. Launch pads are the place where rockets take off. But the things that cause it to take off are completely different. A rocket takes off or 'launches' from a concept called thrust. Thrust is when say I have a ten pound ball that I want to throw directly up in the air. I need to create 10 pounds of energy to launch it and then enough energy to actually get it to where I want to go. Those are the basic things that make a rocket launch.
Because it's too heavy ! It would take much bigger and more powerful rockets to lift a craft made of iron off the launch-pad.
Launch Off to War was created on 2003-07-15.
Lauch pads aren't essential for take off. All a rocket needs to take off is thrust. If, by "rockets", you're referring to a propelled projectile, then rockets with no guidance capabilities need the lauch pad to establish a trajectory. In space, it's a different ballgame. With practically no gravity, a rocket launched from a launch pad similar to one here on Earth would also be lauched. With a lauch pad on Earth, the Earth mass keeps it from travelling in the opposite direction. A lauch pad in space would need thrust of its own to maintain position during a launch. Visit NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) site at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov for mind-blowing information on this and other space topics. They've got some cool toys there, too.
NASA needed a US launch location as close as possible to the Equator, and with convenient (shipping and rail) transportation, but remote from heavily-populated areas and with a safe abort location (the Atlantic Ocean) for any possible launch mishaps.
The launch date for the Apollo 13 mission was April 11th 1970 at 13:13 eastern time.
Rockets, of course.
a the take off station.