Phillips held his ears, realizing he had just launched a solid-fuel rocket with its engine little more than twenty feet away.
Sometimes the oxidizer and fuel are pre-mixed, as in a solid-fuel rocket.
The three-stage, solid-fuel rocket is to weigh 15 tons and measure 50 feet in length.
His plan was to use a Redstone rocket with clusters of small solid-fuel rockets on top.
The main focus of the rocket debate is the shuttle, whose 149-foot twin boosters are the largest solid-fuel rockets in the world.
The boat is sent back to sea to launch the missiles, whose solid-fuel rockets ignite after they pop out of the water.
They had to be released, because it was the only way to stop acceleration by a solid-fuel rocket.
But solid-fuel rockets simply can't be made to burn with absolute evenness as a team.
Assuming solid-fuel rockets like we used and you used, they are on a collision course.
And there were racks to which solid-fuel rockets of divers sizes could be attached.