When it’s hot, and you need some excitement, it’s time for water rockets.
Yes, you can buy a really cheap version for $5 and it works fine. But real geekdads show their kids how to hack one using discarded soda bottles. It will take longer to launch, but the possibilities and variations are endless.
That North Korean rocket was crap, unlike the Vostok 1, the mighty Soviet rocket that launched the first man to ever reach space on April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin.
Gagarin's was the first human spaceflight in history. A humble, beloved and revered hero not only by the Soviets but by American astronauts and everyone else.
What follows is the story we published on the 50th anniversary of this historical flight.
A Jeff Bezos-funded team of sea explorers has located the Apollo 11 rockets that helped get man get to the moon.
On July 16th, 1969, five F-1 rockets powered Apollo 11 off the ground with one and a half million pounds of thrust, and 32 million horsepower. A few minutes later, the first stage rockets detached from the space craft and plummeted 38 miles to the ocean.
You might think NASA's not doing a lot these days, what with the dismantling of the manned space program and everything, but they're still making explosions. Now there's video: the J-2X, which NASA says is our next ticket to space.
