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this is my sneaky way of showing the size differences between some famous rockets.

for those who don’t know, the ‘v-2’ rocket (aka a4) on the far left was 14 metres tall and was the first rocket to ever reach space in 1944. it was built by the nazis to bomb london (but luckily they mostly missed).

the ‘saturn v’ on the right was the rocket that brought people to the moon in 1968-72, and is still the largest rocket ever launched as of now (2021/08) at 110 metres tall. however, spacex’s 120m tall ‘starship’ is going to break that record when it launches (hopefully) later this year.

Transcripts

sedna: so this is our current rocket, the emu 3. it’s a tiny single-stage solid-fuelled rocket that can only go a few kilometres high.

sedna: to get to orbit, the emu 7 will be a much bigger, two-stage liquid-fuelled rocket, with a guidance system so that it can steer.

sedna: then we can move on to our mars mission rockets… starting with the emu 12 heavy.
dini: a-are you sure we can afford all this?

Webcomic Transcript Authorsthomas

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