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Like the jet engine, rockets are another invention that will make beings in the future impressed with our capabilities, if they’re capable of being impressed. Rockets are exciting because they allow some of us to use them to explore space, not so much because ordinary people use them very much outside the fourth of July.
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Phipps, C. (2016). Rockets. In: No Wonder You Wonder!. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21680-5_18
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