Common uses for black powder include as gunpowder in muzzle-loading guns, as a blasting powder and as a propellant in rockets for fireworks.
If your mother or your uncle is an engineer or a scientist, you are likely to grow up conducting experiments in the basement or launching rockets in the back yard.
Harden scored a career-high 46 points in the Rockets' only regular-season win against Oklahoma City, but said he didn't gain any secrets from that performance to carry over into the playoffs.
The military uses similar chemicals in its rockets, only it gets to spice up the mix a bit by adding nitroglycerine-based explosives to the fuel, making them about 20% more powerful than sophisticated hobby engines.
Harden scored 30 points for the Rockets in the first playoff game in Houston since 2009.
John Carmack, the guy who wrote the Doom computer game is now designing rockets in Texas.
Louis, Nammo Talley assembles shoulder-launched rockets in Columbus and BAE Systems completes howitzers in Hattiesburg.
He usually designs and manufactures secretive military rockets in Britain and the United States.
He belongs to what was once the Soviet intelligentsia, and is more interested in business than rockets.
He said Islamist fighters had used rockets in battles with the French and Malian troops on Tuesday.
He won two NBA championships with the Rockets in 1994 and 1995.
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The 28-year-old Yao has been a perennial pick for the NBA All-Star teams since moving from the Shanghai Sharks to the Rockets in 2002.
You'll dodge rockets in industrial moon colonies, score head shots on sandy alien beaches, and even hunt down hard-to-find body armor in an underwater super-structure.
Chandler Parsons had a tying 3-pointer for Houston with 5:46 left, and Delfino put the Rockets in front for the first time since early in the first quarter when he connected from long range to make it 94-93 about 2 minutes later.
One reason is that the Obama administration is rethinking a planned missile-defence system, which would have placed ten interceptor rockets in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic, in order to guard against Iranian missile attacks on America and much of Europe.
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The craft, partially owned by Virgin group overlord Sir Richard Branson and the Abu Dhabi-based investment group PJC, took off earlier today from its berth at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, where carrier-craft WhiteKnightTwo ferried it to a 47, 000 ft altitude after which its own rockets kicked in for a supersonic flight.
The craft, partially owned by Virgin group overload Sir Richard Branson and the Abu Dhabi-based investment group PJC, took off earlier today from its berth at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, where carrier-craft WhiteKnightTwo ferried it to a 47, 000 ft altitude after which its own rockets kicked in for a supersonic flight.
In that incident, two rockets fired from the Egyptian Sinai by Gaza-based militants landed in open areas, without causing damage or injury.
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Taking the everything-is-bigger mantra from the Cowboys, the Houston Rockets announced in September many improvements to the Toyota Center.
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In a world that rockets us from experience to experience, a brand has to be transparently clear with indescribable fidelity.
By 2002 more people would be watching Houston Rockets games in China (thanks to Yao Ming) than in Houston.
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The official Lebanese news agency said eight rockets landed in Hermel.
Launch vehicles will be Falcon 9 rockets from SpaceX lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and Kosmotras DNEPR rockets lifting off from Yasny, Russia.
The technology will be even more spectacular when it moves into its new home in the former Houston Rockets' stadium "We really want it to feel like a concert, " says Duncan Dodds , Lakewood's executive director.
He has been reminding the public that he warned that Palestinian militants in Gaza could launch rockets at Israeli cities such as Ashkelon and Ashdod -- which has happened and led to Israel's recent military operation in Gaza.
Iraq's border region has been targeted by Syria in the past -- as the Syrian conflict escalated in 2012, there was at least one instance where rockets fired from Syria landed in Al-Qaim.
On a sunny spring morning students and teachers from all over south Texas made their way to the volunteer fire station that is all of Willow City, Texas where, armed with huge homemade rockets they were given final directions to a secluded launch site in an area more known for rattlesnakes than rockets.
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