Reply To: Module 5 – Rockets & Alien Chemistry

[Frances McCarthy]

Rachael,

I’m not familiar with tinfoil rockets (except for these positively dangerous ones! https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/TRC/Rockets/match_rocket.html or here: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/stem-activities/matchstick-rockets)

How would you launch the rockets? I like measuring how far they go – with a straw paper rocket my best record is about 8 m, but that included a glide on a smooth floor. The raw distance to landing is about 6m.