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Bookmark or Share- The Trouble with Rocket Packs [Slideshow] - Scientific AmericanPowerhouse's rocket pack carries seven gallons (26.5 liters) of fuel, weighs 165 pounds (75 kilograms) with full tanks, and generates 800 horsepower. The rocket pack has proved to be good at...
- Jet pack - WikipediaA jet pack, rocket belt, rocket pack or flight pack is a device worn as a backpack which uses jets to propel the wearer through the air. The concept has been present in science fiction for almost a century and the first working experimental devices were demonstrated in the 1960s.
- We were promised jetpacks decades ago. Here’s where are they nowJetpacks, otherwise known as rocket belts or rocket packs, are special devices used to transport a wearer through the air. The jets could consist of either expelled gases or liquids. Jetpacks...
- The Story of NASA’s Jet-Propulsion Backpack | SmithsonianIt’s an astronaut’s wildest dream: to fly effortlessly through space, like a modern-day Buck Rogers. Thirty years ago, for a brief moment, a handful of space shuttle astronauts got to live the...
- The Ill-Fated History of the Jet Pack | SmithsonianThis Bell Aerospace rocket belt is the dream made real—albeit updated by science and science fiction.
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