Fun Stuff

• Mars Station South Pole 2 ( Hosted by Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA)


• Mars Station Great Martian Volcanoes ( Hosted by Bareket Observatory, Israel )

Students can get involved in rocketry by either buying rockets from models shops or even making them themselves. There are two main types of model rockets, ones which use a combustable propellant and those which uses water under pressure. Another type found in smaller rockets uses a mixture of baking powder and vinegar so to produce carbon dioxide under pressure as the propellent.

Here we will concern ourselves with the two main types:

Combustable propellant rockets: I first got involved in this type of rocketry while at university when I became a member of the Kent Amateur Rocket Team (KART) as part of the rocket structure team. The rocket was made out of carbon fibre so to be strong yet light.

Here is an excellent book explaining model rocketry:

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Water rocketry: Far more simple and fun too. Click here to download a guide to building and understanding the physics of water rockets. This guide has been produced by the National Physics Laboratory and authored by Michael de Podesta.