Are Present Manned Rockets Capable of Escaping Jupiter and the Inner Planets of the Solar System?
Abstract The project consists of determining whether present manned rockets are capable of escaping the gravity of a planet when launching off of Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. Governments technological competitions and human curiosity has driven space exploration for over fifty years. Now, as our world population increases, our planet Earth is struggling to meet the demands of the human population. In order for the human population to keep increasing, it will be necessary for humans to thrive on other planets as well. This is why it is important for shuttles to be able to colonize and escape other planets gravity. The project uses the Stella projectile model to determine the velocities of the spacecraft. Factors such as the shuttles rate of acceleration and shuttles deceleration due to the planets gravity are used when calculating the velocity of the rocket. The shuttle must reach each planet’s escape velocity before its velocity starts decreasing due to gravity in order for it to
