Our son, TsukiMoon's interest continues in rockets. Searching YouTube he found a app/game which allows you to design your own rockets, called Kerbal Space Progarm (KSP). https://kerbalspaceprogram.com
It's pretty complicated program which in a weekend taught TsukiMoon about different ways rockets can be constructed with multi-stage assents which can be configured in a multiple ways. One multi-stage structure was new to my husband and me, asparagus staging.
Also it taught TsukiMoon about types of orbits; geosynchronous, retrograde and prograde and possible ways to get a rocket into them. This weekend we watched the Tom Hanks mini-series production, "From The Earth to The Moon." Mr. TsukiMoon my husband, TsukiMoon's dad, educated TsukiMoon about how transfer orbits worked when moving from an course around the Earth to an ellipse around the Moon.
I thought it would be fun to teach TsukiMoon who came up with the model for transfer orbit.
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