What is “Rocket Science”?

19th June 2007 9:19am

John Naughton has an example. The equations for “powered flight of rocket through terrestrial atmosphere with prescribed thrust direction as a function of time, considered as a system of reference rotating with the earth”.

I'm really quite glad I didn't finish my Aerospace Systems Engineering degree.

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