Rocket Trivia

1. Most powerful launch rockets use liquid fuel
 2. The Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo mission to the moon is the most powerful  rocket ever built.
3. Solid fuel is a rubbery substance that contains hydrogen, and it is usually used in additional, booster rockets.
4. The first rockets were made 1000 years ago, in China.
5. Robert Goddard launched the very first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926.
6. Germany launched the first rocket capable of reaching space, the V-2 rocket, in 1942. The missile was launched at sites in England and Belgium as part of the World War Two effort.
7. the slowest rocket to land on the moon took 1 year, 1 month and 2 weeks
8. the fastest rocket to land on the moon took 5 days
9.Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, he travelled in the rocket, Apollo 11
10.Future rocket drives include nuclear thermal engines that would use a nuclear reactor to heat the gas blasted out.

Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon