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Explain in your own words how a rocket is able to lift off
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Explain in your own words how a rocket is able to lift off

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When the rocket accelerates up, the thrust is greater than the combined lift and drag, therefore making it go upward. Thrust from the engine / or whatever the power source is makes it lift.

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