Wikijunior talk:How Things Work/Rocket

The description written on 8-7-06 is a summery of quite complex forces that exist in a rocket’s motion. It would be better to write a summery considering that it is directed to 8-11 year olds. “A rocket works by pushing hot exhaust out of one end creating a thrust which pushes it up.” - “The hot exhaust is created by burning a fuel in a controlled manner,” – “By creating a jet of heated exhaust a force is exerted on the colder air behind the rocket.”

I think this level of technical data would be more appropriate.

Top Speed of Blackbird
I was under the impression the SR-71 Blackbird flew at Mach 3, not 5 times the speed of sound as stated.


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Why the big changes?
There were several things about this article that I felt really needed to be improved before we could move it to the publishable section in the table of contents: There is still much to be done with this article before it can be ready for publication. But I would like to see 10 of these modules readied for publication including this one. -- xixtas talk 20:52, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The size of the photos caused the page to render poorly in smaller browser windows (In fact, it didn't even render well in a full screen 1024x768 on my notebook.) I think photos larger than 400 pixels wide should be used sparingly if at all.
 * The "middle" tag was causing the photos on the right to shift underneath both that picture and the text they were supposed to be associated with.
 * There was a factual errors regarding the composition of fuel for the Saturn V F-1 engine it is now correctly stated as a combination of a kerosene engine (stage 1) and hydrogen-oxygen (stage 2 and 3).
 * The comparative power of the Saturn V F1 engine to the Shuttle Booster was incorrectly state. The shuttle booster is the most powerful rocket engine ever made.
 * Some of the photos did not seem to be chosen to illustrate the text. Instead, they seemed to be included just because they were pictures that had to do with rockets.
 * I made sure there was a caption on every picture.
 * I removed all 1337 spelling from the text.
 * There should always be a space after a period (unless it's followed by a close parentheses.) Likewise with commas.
 * There was some unnecessary and in my view undesirable US/European centric language.