How rockets work

The theory to explain rockets didn't arrive until 1687, when Isaac Newton discovered the laws of motion.

A rocket in space moves like a skater holding a fire extinguisher

Fuel is ignited in a chamber and creates an explosion

As these gases rush to get out the rocket moves in the opposite direction, as predicted by newton's 3rd law of motion.

The first personnel to establish modern rocketry was a Russian school teacher, named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.