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==Types== ;Vehicle configurations [[File:Apollo 15 launch.ogv|thumb|Launch of [[Apollo 15]] [[Saturn V]] rocket: ''T'' β 30 s through ''T'' + 40 s]] Rocket vehicles are often constructed in the archetypal tall thin "rocket" shape that takes off vertically, but there are actually many different types of rockets including:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/conghand/vehicles.htm |title=NASA History: Rocket vehicles |publisher=Hq.nasa.gov |access-date=2012-12-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130125030055/http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/conghand/vehicles.htm |archive-date=2013-01-25 }}</ref> * tiny models such as [[balloon rocket]]s, [[water rocket]]s, [[skyrocket]]s or [[model rocket|small solid rockets]] that can be purchased at a [[hobby store]] * [[missile]]s * [[launch vehicle|space rockets]] such as the enormous [[Saturn V]] used for the [[Apollo program]] * [[rocket car]]s * rocket bike<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30007505|title=Rocket bicycle sets 207mph speed record By Leo Kelion|work=BBC News|date=2013-11-11|access-date=2014-11-11|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111150526/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30007505|archive-date=2014-11-11|last1=Kelion|first1=Leo}}</ref> * [[rocket-powered aircraft]] (including rocket-assisted takeoff of conventional aircraft β [[JATO|RATO]]) * [[rocket sled]]s * [[Opel-RAK|rocket trains]] * [[VA-111 Shkval|rocket torpedoes]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Polmar|first1=Norman|last2=Moore|first2=Kenneth J.|title=Cold War submarines : the design and construction of U.S. and Soviet submarines|date=2004|publisher=Brassey's|location=Washington, DC|isbn=978-1-57488-594-1|page=304}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=III|first1=compiled by A.D. Baker|title=The Naval Institute guide to combat fleets of the world 2000β2001 : their ships, aircraft, and systems|date=2000|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, MD|isbn=978-1-55750-197-4|page=581}}</ref> * rocket-powered [[jet pack]]s<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rocketman.org |title=The Rocketman |publisher=The Rocketman |access-date=2012-12-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213121923/http://www.rocketman.org/ |archive-date=2010-02-13 }}</ref> * rapid escape systems such as [[ejection seat]]s and [[launch escape system]]s * [[space probe]]s {{clear}}
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