Rocketry

The area and facilities where rockets or spacecraft lift off

• Trajectory

• Parachute

• Launch Pad

• Thrust

The force that drives something forward, or forward motion

• Thrust

• Propulsion

• Aerodynamics

• Launch

Three laws that describe how objects move in relation to the forces acting on them.

• Aerodynamics

• Center of Mass

• Launch Pad

• Laws of Motion

The point where the matter is equal on both sides in a body or system.

• Launch Pad

• Center of Mass

• Parachute

• Payload

A force that pulls objects toward each other

• Thrust

• Gravity

• Propulsion

• Launch

The cone-shaped nose of a rocket or aircraft.

• Nose Cone

• Fuselage

• Fins

• Launch Pad

Fanlike structures attached to the endoskeleton

• Nose Cone

• Fuselage

• Payload

• Fins

A device that expels gas in one direction to move in the opposite direction

• Launch

• Rocket

• Thrust

• Gravity

The path followed by an object moving through space

• Propulsion

• Trajectory

• Gravity

• Thrust

To set or thrust in motion.

• Launch

• Thrust

• Propulsion

• Trajectory