25 Rocket Coloring Pages - Free!

Rockets are very important devices today, do you know why? Thanks to them, space probes or spacecraft can be sent that are meant to explore space.

The origin of rockets goes back to the 13th century, in China, where gunpowder was invented. Did you know about this? In addition, rockets also serve other functions, such as sending alarm signals or as weapons of war.

Wouldn't you like to know how rockets work? It is a very interesting and complex mechanism! So do not go away, here we are going to tell you much more about rockets.

Relax! You will not have to read anything very tedious and complicated. Quite the opposite, we have fun facts about rockets that we collected for you, so if you dare to color this topic you will learn a lot of interesting things. Come on! I know you will love it.

So grab your colors, and let all your imagination fly by coloring!

1. Rockets have been used for military purposes for centuries, since the Mongols used them in the year 1250 during the conquest of Baghdad.
2. When a rocket is launched it must tilt to gain horizontal speed and so it does not fall to the earth when its engines shut off.
3. Several investigations indicate that the origin of rockets is Chinese, since they developed fireworks for their religious festivals.
4. Rockets are very dangerous, do you know why? They contain tons of flammable materials, so an explosion would be catastrophic.
5. The Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was important for the evolution of rockets, since he designed one whose fuel was oxygen and liquid hydrogen.
6. Rockets are used for many things! For fireworks, weapons, vehicles for launching artificial satellites, crewed space flights, and many more.
7. The Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first man to reach space aboard a rocket called Vostok-K.
8. In 1956 the Russians built the first nuclear-warhead rocket. Do you know what that means? That it carried an atomic bomb at its tip.
9. The Soviets put an artificial satellite called Sputnik I into orbit for the first time, in 1957.
10. The space vehicles of the Saturn series sent the first man to the Moon, in 1969.
11. The largest of the rockets in the Saturn series, the Saturn V, weighed 2,752 tons at the moment of its takeoff. Amazing!
12. The engine of a space rocket uses an oxidizer and liquid fuel in order to propel itself. Incredible!
13. During the 15th and 16th centuries rockets were used as incendiary weapons.
14. Robert Hutchings Goddard was responsible for directing the first flight of a rocket propelled by liquid fuel (gasoline and oxygen).
15. In the beginning rockets were developed for military purposes, and they were known as ballistic missiles.
16. Rockets are extremely important vehicles, since they have the ability to reach great speeds.
17. One of the most important uses of rockets is to launch objects into space, placing them in orbit around the Earth.
18. In order to launch an object into space, the rocket must always be much larger than the object that will be launched.
19. Wernher von Braun devised the Saturn V, a rocket adaptable for going to Mars, and it was the rocket that took the first man to the Moon.
20. Before humans crewed the rockets, scientists sent dogs and monkeys aboard.
21. In order to escape the earth's gravity, rockets have to travel at a speed of 11 km/s.
22. It was not until the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century that scientists turned the rocket into a system that made it possible to send crewed space vehicles into space.