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OCR: ROCKET POWER SPACE TECHNOLOGY Exhaust | Liquid nozzle Combustion chamber Liquid fuel oxidizer LIQUID-PROPELLANT ROCKETS THE LIQUID-PROPELLANT Most rockets used in spaceflight contain liquid COMBUSTION PROCESS propellants. Both the fuel and oxidizer are liquids, The oxidizer and fuel mix stored in separate tanks. Powerful pumps deliver and burn in the combustion them to a combustion chamber where they mix chamber. The exhaust gases and burn, producing exhaust gases, which rush out produced by the combustion through the nozzle. Some rockets use an igniter to process then rush out of start combustion; others ignite when the fuel and the nozzle and create thrust, which pushes oxidizer come into contact with one another. >> the rocket forward. SPACE TECHNOLOGY SPACE TRAVEL LIVING IN SPACE