Stephen Hawking

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

English Physicist

Anne Hathaway

I think we all want to really live good lives, and we all really want to have a healthy planet, although I don't know if we're supposed to be on it forever. Now, does that mean that we should be building rocket ships to shoot us into outer space? Well if we can, I think we should.

American Actress

Mark Foster

L.A. gives me a lot. L.A. is a city of extremes. People come here from all over the world that have these, like, giant ideas, and they put everything into it. And some people just fall flat on their face, and some people, you know, shoot like a rocket.

American Musician

Guy Fieri

I am just a regular dude who happened to make it. That's all I am, man. Maybe I was preparing myself in some lifetime to become this person, but I never thought I'd have every rocket shooting off at one time.

American Businessman

Samantha Ponder

It's so important for young girls see that it's not weird for girls to understand what happens in the red zone. It's not rocket science. For a lot of the girls that I grew up around, that's common knowledge.

American Journalist

Sergio Marchionne

The biggest fear that I see is that we will be left behind. We are a very slow industry; for us to make a decision takes forever. Take Tesla: Elon moves at the speed of a rocket.

Italian Businessman

Mike Hughes

A guy who builds his own rocket in his garage, about to jump a mile, is pretty cool. It's the most interesting human-interest story in the world.

American Celebrity

Shefali Shah

The basic thing you teach your children is to respect other people. It is not rocket science; it's as simple as brushing your teeth.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

Elon Musk

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

South African Businessman

Refers specifically to machines for space exploration.

Space Vehicle

Don't confuse rockets with airplanes; rockets go to space.

Not Any Plane

The term often symbolizes speed, power, or high-technology in metaphors.

Powerful Imagery

Illustrates a very rapid increase or movement in something.

Fast Movement

Use when something grows, moves, or happens very quickly.

Surprising Speed

In the UK, 'rocket' can mean a type of salad leaf, not known everywhere.

British Term

Known for its peppery flavor which adds zest to dishes.

Distinctive Taste

Often used for celebrations; rockets are a staple of firework displays.

Celebratory Fireworks

Emphasizes its path upwards before exploding, unlike other fireworks.

Skyward Burst

 The boys and the rockets get bigger. They use motors used on cruise-missile boosters. They rumble the belly and leave even photographers in awe, watching the spectacle. These rockets use experimental motors like nitrous oxide. They use solid propellant most frequently. It's a strange kind of love. RocketMavericks.com with my photos, if you want to learn about this,

Steve Jurvetson: The joy...

 check your shoes. And like -- But then it wasn't -- they didn't have any, but the guy had -- I said, what kind of salts of potassium do you have? You know. And he had potassium nitrate. And I said, that might do the same thing, whatever it is. I'm sure it's got to do with rockets or it wouldn't be in that manual.

Kary Mullis: Celebrating...

 for the cost of a single space shuttle mission, exponentially increasing the amount of data we could collect about the universe. And they're individually expendable, meaning that we could send them into environments that are too risky for a billion dollar rocket or probe.

Will future spacecraft...

 little Rockets were being built no computer in the world had the capacity to handle the gamma radiation the temperatures of thousands of degrees to actually control the nozzles and there were Russian rockets flying around working with tiny little fluid computers

Computing with fluids PIPE...

 rocketed the researchers have discovered that female fur seals are being born with a lower birth weight only the larger female fur seals are surviving and returning to breed they're also having their first pups later in life all this indicates that

Why Are There Too Many...

 pumps a ton of energy down one way that moves a rocket the other way and its way of fighting gravity the main expense of spacecraft is building the booster itself and right now we don't reuse boosters spacex is trying desperately to get that going

Leaving Earth PIPE MARS:...

 I wanted the rocket. I never got the rocket, I only got the motorcycle. I felt so connected to this world. I didn't want to be a storyteller when I grew up, I wanted to be stuntman.

Chris Milk: How virtual...

 trip to the moon is often called the first sci-fi film these stories inspired real-life rocket scientists to continue working on the problems of space travel

This Cannon Launched Our...

 impossible every orbital launch generates rocket parts as debris as mine once did some pieces remain orbiting forever some burn

What Happens When an...

 to explore the vast universe among the stars. Launching a rocket into space is one of humankind's crowning achievements.