It’s no secret that rockets are incredibly complicated machines. Unlike airplanes, rockets don’t have the luxury of using wings to fly. Even the wings on the space shuttle were only used for gliding down to land on a runway. Rockets have to use sheer power to push themselves through the…

The force required to propel a giant 1.3 million pound rocket into space, defying the laws of gravity is quite incredible, and an engineering feat like no other. The raw power of the 200 foot jet of fire roaring from the bottom of the vehicle is mesmerizing. …