Launch to the moon!

Lab: Launching from the moon.

This afternoon my group (Honore and Emma S.) and I tried to launch a balloon up a string attached to the wall so it would hit the wall. We taped a balloon to a straw and strung the string through the straw. We then let the air out of the balloon. It did not go anywhere, so it was a failure. Our second try did work though. We tried taping the straw to the ballon in the middle insead ot the end. We then let the air out of the balloon and it went up the sting and hit the wall! We then tried to carry objects up with the balloons but all our trys failed.

This applies to Newton's third law because when the air pushed out of the end of the balloon, but the balloon and straw when the opposite direction than the air going out of the balloon. This is because Newton's third law states: To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is exactly what this experiment shows.

If I could do this expeiriment again I would try different ways to carry objects up to the wall. I don't really have any quesitons at the moment. Although I am not really sure what this has to do with mission to mars I think that we might have to use Newton's third law at some point. I'm not exacty sure though.