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Ep. 605: Sounding Rockets

Astronomy Cast

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Parachutes and the Microgravity Environment

As they go up, they eventually dispel all their fuel and gravity takes over. And because of this i essentially vertical trip that they go on, they hover above the pointn where they launched. It's very convenient that you don't have to go thousands of colombeters down range to find your experiment.

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