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Welcome to Merlin's Fireballs! Here you can learn all about........ =**Spacey Stuff !**=

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So..... Let's start with space transportation

You've read about it, you've studied it through a telescope and now you want to go to space? You need a rocket! What is a rocket you ask?

Rockets
Rockets are a way of getting around space. They have been used for space missions many times by companies like NASA and cost **__a lot of money to make__**. But before we can look at modern rockets, I'm going to take you back to ancient china, where it all started....

Back when people were still trying to invent stuff to help their community, those people needed resources so they could invent. And in china a common resource was gunpowder. And when someone got their hands on it they obviously liked to fiddle around. And after some years of fiddling, productivity was evident. Varieties of inventions flooded out and were everywhere. They ranged from weapons such as bombs, cannons and fire arrows to – rockets.

The spread of rocket technology went from provision to provision, then country to country, state to state and so on until every continent knew about them. Back then, they were more like fireworks than space transportation systems. But not for long….

as technology is handed down and passed around, it slowly changes bit by bit. Now that rocket technology had been passed around quite a bit almost everyone on earth knew about it. So by 1926 of course someone was going to advance that technology instead of altering it just a tiny bit. And that someone was Robert Goddard. Goddard was the man who made the defining point between old and modern rockets when he launched a rocket only known as ‘Goddard’s Rocket’ which then became the first liquid-fuelled rocket.

Rockets from then on have become as we know them today. Vast capsules that go to space stations to make repairs; explore our solar system and many other things.



How rockets work in simple terms.
 * Rocket Physics **

Rockets are jet propelled. They lift off the ground by burning fuel, creating fire which comes out the bottom of the rocket and pushes against the ground, creating a force more powerful than the rocket’s weight which causes the rocket to lift off the ground and out of earth’s atmosphere.

=Bibiliography=

DK/Google 'e' encyclopedia pg.28 'Rockets' Penguin Publishing 2003 Great Britain.

Black Holes

Black Holes are a theory that no one has proven so far. they are supposed to be invisible, but apparently scientists can see them by noticing large amounts of gas that are swirling around an area. They can also detect them through strong gravitational forces. If someone has ever been near a black hole, they didn't live to tell the tale!

There is a theory that space has no corners, but it curves. Space is a vaccum, so it has no atmosphere meaning no air to breathe, meaning.... well, I think you know what happens next.