A rocket or rocket vehicle is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle

which obtains thrust by the reaction of the rocket to the ejection of fast moving
fluid exhaust from a rocket engine. Chemical rockets create their exhaust by the
combustion of rocket propellant. The action of the exhaust against the inside of
combustion chambers and expansion nozzles is able to accelerate the gas to
hypersonic speed, and this exerts a large reactive thrust on the rocket (an equal
and opposite reaction in accordance with Newton's third law).

Rockets, in the form of military and recreational uses, date back to at least the
13th century.[1] Widespread military, scientific, and industrial use did not occur
until the 20th century, when rocketry was the enabling technology of the Space
Age, including setting foot on the moon.

Rockets are used for fireworks, weaponry, ejection seats, launch vehicles for
artificial satellites, human spaceflight and exploration of other planets. While
comparatively inefficient for low speed use, they are very lightweight and
powerful, capable of generating large accelerations and of attaining extremely
high speeds with reasonable efficiency.