Rocket
A rocket was a device that moved by exerting a large amount of force in the direction opposite to travel. Many spacecraft were rockets.
Transport use[[edit] | [edit source]]
The use of rockets on Earth had been temporarily abandoned during the 21st century in favour of the T-Mat. The Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot travelled in a rocket from Earth to the Moon. Professor Eldred, a scientist who had a long history with rocketry, had constructed the rocket as part of a plan to take Man beyond the moon. The engines were burnt out when the rocket arrived on the moon. (TV: The Seeds of Death)
Warlike use[[edit] | [edit source]]
On Skaro, the Thals used a rocket to hit the Kaleds citadel with a distronic bomb. They had a slave force consisting of mutos and captured Kaled soldiers pack the nosecone with the toxic explosives. Sarah Jane Smith was one of the workers. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)
In 2065, Space City stocked up on rockets as part of the battle preparations for the Space War against the Astrans. (COMIC: Ceasefire — But War Tension Mounts...)
In the nuclear war between Atrios and Zeos, the Marshal of the former attempted to hit the latter with nuclear rockets. (TV: The Armageddon Factor)
Recreational use[[edit] | [edit source]]
According to the Fourth Doctor, a Mars-Venus rocket run was held in a unspecified time. (TV: Robot)
Other uses[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Rani tried to employ a space rocket to make clash a load of Loyhargil and a strange matter asteroid. (TV: Time and the Rani)
