How powerful is a Rocket?

Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

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Education For Kids, Kids & Family

4.4 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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What causes a Rocket to escape Earth's atmosphere? What are Rockets made of? How are Rockets built? Have you started your FREE TRIAL of Who Smarted?+ for AD FREE listening, an EXTRA episode every week & bonus content? Sign up right in the Apple app, or directly at WhoSmarted.com and find out why more than 1,000 families are LOVING their subscription! Get official Who Smarted? Merch: tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and more, at Who Smarted?

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0:00.0	Pse, hey, smarty pants.
0:05.0	I used my time machine app,
0:07.0	and I'm now in 1973.
0:16.0	But I didn't come for the music.
0:18.0	I came to meet a friend who has traveled to space. And while she's
0:23.6	technically an astronaut, she's definitely not what you're expecting. Huh? For one thing, she's tiny
0:30.0	and has eight legs. Meet Arabella, a space spider. Hi everyone.
0:38.7	Now, when I say she's a space spider,
0:41.1	I don't mean she's a crazy alien creature.
0:43.6	E.T. From home.
0:47.4	What I mean is, she was sent to space by scientists as part of an experiment.
0:52.0	Correctamundo, trusty narrator.
0:54.3	I'm trying to learn how to build a web
0:56.1	in the weightless environment of the Skylab Space Station.
0:59.8	It's really hard to build a web without the comforts of Earth,
1:03.4	namely gravity.
1:05.5	In fact, all I made was a mass.
1:10.5	That's okay. I'm sure with more practice, you'll figure it out. What I want to know is
1:14.9	how are creatures like spiders launched into space? Space travel became possible in the late
1:20.5	20th century when rockets were developed to blast away from Earth. You need a rocket to launch
1:26.5	anything or anyone into space.
1:29.7	Rockets fly very far and very fast.
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