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n. 1 A ground-launched rocket-propelled vehicle that delivers a payload to orbit or land on the moon 2 (context finance English) A company whose stock price rises dramatically following an initial public offering
Wikipedia
Moon rocket may refer to:
Current/Past Manned moon rockets / man-rated moon rockets- Saturn V - the Apollo program launcher for the manned moon landings
- N1 rocket - Sergei Korolev's failed launcher for the Soviet manned moon program
- Space Launch System
- Unified Modular Launch Vehicle - able to launch a 35 tons minimum payload in LEO
- Long March 9 - able to launch a 50 tons payload in LTO
Usage examples of "moon rocket".
Suppose we make it a chemical fuel and a moon rocket and assume a mass-ratio of twenfy to one.
Suppose we make it a chemical fuel and a moon rocket and assume a mass-ratio of twenty to one.
Then we send a second rocket aloft, join it with the first, supply the first with all fuel and equipment, and from this stable platform the Moon rocket will fire and be on its way.
And, just before the big stone 'Lyndon B Johnson Space Center' entry sign at NASA One, they passed, on the right, the Big S itself: a Saturn V moon rocket, complete with Apollo, broken into pieces and lying on its side.
Between hopping all over the world and spending my spare time trying to get on the moon rocket they were building, I wasn't much of a husband.
And there was the white-and-black flank of the Saturn V, an operational Moon rocket, lying in the grass.
The most spectacular of the related assaults had been the grenade attack that had caused the destruction of the decrepit, never-flown Saturn V Moon rocket that had lain for decades as a monument outside NASA&rsquo.