What's a Rocket Ship ?

Here at Carrington Beauty, we refer to your shopping Cart as your own personal Rocket Ship. We're aware it's still a shopping cart, but we just like to live a little.

 While you're here... Did you know, 

The primary differences between rockets and spaceships are as follows: Rockets take the spaceship to space, then fall back to earth. Spaceships can be manned or unmanned, but rockets are never manned. Additionally, rockets have more power than spaceships.

 

9 Random Rocket Facts

  • A typical rocket produces more than a million pounds of thrust that allows it to carry more than 6,000 pounds at speeds topping 22,000 miles per hour. This is equivalent to the power generated by 13 Hoover Dams, carrying the weight of eight horses, and traveling at speeds 15 times faster than a speeding bullet!

  • Enos the chimp flew into space onboard a Mercury Atlas-5 (a mercury capsule on an Atlas D booster) on November 29, 1961. He completed his first orbit in 1 hour and 28.5 minutes.

  • The race to the moon relied on the highly successful flights of Atlas. 

  • Together, Atlas and Delta rockets have launched more than 1,300 missions.

  • In 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit when an Atlas launched his Friendship 7 spacecraft.

  • In January of 2006, Atlas V set a new world record during the launch of the New Horizons mission, for the fastest spacecraft at the time of leaving Earth’s atmosphere – more than 36,000 miles per hour. At this speed, it would only take 41 minutes and 44 seconds to go around the Earth’s Equator, which is 24,902 miles. The spacecraft reached a top speed of 47,000 miles per hour. A flight from Denver to New York would only take 2 minutes and 16 seconds at that rate.

  • A Delta II can launch a satellite that’s the equivalent weight of a Mercedes S500 sedan (approximately 4,200 lbs.). An Atlas V or Delta IV can launch a satellite that’s the equivalent weight of a Humvee (approximately 6,500 lbs.). As the largest launch vehicle, the Delta IV Heavy can launch a satellite that’s the equivalent weight of a semi-truck (approximately 29,000 lbs.).

  • An Atlas V 500 series vehicle stands 205 feet tall – that’s almost 19 stories.

  • On Dec. 18, 1958, an entire Atlas B booster orbited the Earth carrying a tape-recorded Christmas greeting from President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

 

 

  

 

The space shuttle Discovery lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in 1984.

PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN A. CHAKERES