Rocket Balloon Experiment

Watch these pictures as they progress...

The balloon is rocketing up the string.

Here's how you can do this yourself.

Get a long string/yarn and attach it somewhere up higher.  I used my bookshelf.  The on the other end of the string, put on a straw.  Next blow up a balloon but don't tie it.  Hold on to it.  Then tape the balloon to the straw.  Let go and watch the balloon rocket up the string.  This is an example of a spaceship and the rocket power boosting it up to space.

Now you can do it too!