rockets coloring pages

Rockets are powerful machines that can zoom up into space.

Do you know that the idea of a rocket was first thought up by ancient Greek engineer Hero around 2,000 years ago?

He created a simple steam-powered device called an “Aeolipile”, which amazed people, sparking the idea of what we know now as a rocket.

You might wonder, what makes a rocket move?

It’s all about pushing air out from the back very fast, and that makes it go forward.

This is because of Newton’s laws of motion, the 3rd law to be precise, which says every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Rockets can be used for many amazing things.

They can send satellites into space and astronauts to the moon, or go hundreds of miles up into space, exploring the universe beyond what we can see.

They’re built strong and tough because they have to travel super-fast and need to survive in the harshest conditions in space.