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Things You Thought You Knew – Up, Up, and Away!
StarTalk Radio
The Rocket Equation, You Need Calculus to Do That Correctly
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The amount of fuel you need for every increment of payload grows exponentially. There's a famous equation called the rocket equation. That's why if you saw the launch of either the Apollo missions, if you're a whole timer, or the recent Artemis missions, you see this huge rocket.
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