Did you know that...

...the Saturn V was the launch vehicle that carried the first humans to the Moon on the historic moment of July 14, 1969? It was powered by five F-1 Engines which was each capable of outputting a tremendous thrust of 1.5 million pound-force or equivalent to the total thrust of three Spaceshuttle main engines. Today, NASA's Artemis Mission aims to go back to the Moon to reclaim its past glory.

Source: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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What is Rocket Science?

Rocket science is a colloquial term for aerospace engineering. Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft.

spacex falcon 9 vehicle

Reuse, reuse, and reuse

SpaceX's Falcon 9 Vehicle is a reusable rocket, albeit partially. After every launch, the rocket's first stage (the part that lifts it off to space) detaches and is autonomously controlled to land by mostly artificial intelligence. The booster B1058 has been launched 14 times and reused at the same number. It is still used up to now.

spacex raptor engine

En-raptor-izing Heights

SpaceX's new Raptor Engine is a full-flow rocket engine to be used for their next-generation Starship vehicle. This means that its efficiency is uncapped because of the fact that none of the fuel is wasted and is used all through out the combustion cycle. The Raptor Engine is also the world's very first fully working full-flow staged-combustion engine.

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Why are there no fission-driven rocket engines yet?

Although nuclear rockets are expectedly better than combustion engines, things literally become heated when the term nuclear is mentioned. One of the many factors include the massive dissatisfaction of the general public themselves to anything nuclear which was why nuclear-fission driven rocket engines never really took off.