If there is no gravity in space,how do rockets land?

Answer 1

WITH PRESSURISED AIR/GAS.

THEY JUST FART THROUGH A LITTLE HOLE IN THE SIDE OF THE ROCKET.... EASY....

Answer 2

As everybody else has stated, there is gravity in space. Also, if you land you must be placing the rocket onto a body, which will have its own gravity.

However, let us assume that you want to land on something with very little gravity, like an asteroid. If you have seen films like Deep impact, Armagedon, the current favourate method would appear to be firing rockets, with lines attached, from the bottom of your craft onto the surface, tethering yourself and then winching yourself down.

You could also say that you land on a space station, although the term is to dock. In this case, you allign your hatch with the hatch of the station and then use clamps, or magnets to stay attached while you are docked.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

When they land on the Moon or a planet that place will have some form of it's own gravity. Not sure about in actual space though, like when they attach to a space station. Hmm? Any astronaughts or rocket scientists on YA?!!

Answer 4

There is gravity in space.

Gravity is what happens when a mass sits in space. It distorts space-time in such a way that it attracts other masses around it. The amount of this attraction is defined by the amount of the masses and how far apart they are. Gravity therefore exerts forces on things.

If I'm far enough away from a mass, though, and keep moving around it, the outward acceleration of my movement balances the inward acceleration of gravity. That's how stuff becomes weightless in orbit (or in airplanes flying in great arcs).

However, even without gravity, rockets could move around, because they have thruster systems in them that exert forces on the rocket and make it move. This is how orbiting shuttles dock with orbiting space stations, for example, even in situations where gravity has been effectively nullified.

Answer 5

Wrong !!!
There is gravity in space - it keeps the planets, stars, meteors and comets in their orbits.
The apparent lack of gravity is due to the fact that space ships are travelling so fast as to overcome the effect of gravity. If their speed is reduced - firing retro-rockets- gravity takes over and allows them to land.

Answer 6

There is gravity in space! Not the type of gravity that allows you to stand, the gravity in space is more "dispersed" and undirected an is called a "gravitational pull". How else do all our planets revolve around the sun and not fly off in a random direction, and how can something land in "space", in so called "empty" space. Or do you mean "dock" in space, because all they do is equalize all the gravitational pulls by orbiting the earth

Answer 7

They only land on planets and any other satellites...

When they land on this places they uses booster/rocket to land them slowly down... And stick to the moon

The rocket will land on the moon using propellers or etc..

Answer 8

Every orbital body had some gravity.. Free space has none.

Answer 9

Every thing in space has its own gravity

Answer 10

the rockets don't , by the time they get to the moon (or wherever)
they are broken up & only the landing capsule remains & that uses little directional thruster rockets

Answer 11

Every body of mass has gravity.