The record was set as part of an the NPL Water Rocket Challenge, an annual event to encourage local schoolchildren to get interested in science.

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It's classic science that's fun to do as a family or a team. Practise and challenge your friends! Download the Water bottle Rockets PDF(378 Kb). Adobe Acrobat is required. SAFETY: This rocket uses ...

Al Williams and I were talking about water rockets on the podcast the other day, and I realized that this was a perfect example of an open-ended simple project. It sounds really easy: you put some ...