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“It will be a lot cheaper than using the liquid fuel” said Dom Donut. The Chinese have been making fireworks for over 500 years so we should be able to use their gunpowder to blast off to the moon. “Gunpowder,” as it came to be known, is a mixture of saltpeter (potassium nitrate), sulfur, and charcoal. Together, these materials will burn rapidly and explode as a propellant. Chinese monks discovered the technology around 850 AD during their quest for a life-extending elixir. The key ingredient, saltpeter, had been in use by this same culture since the late centuries BCE for...
