Space Explorer: Task 1

Welcome! I see you've accessed my computer, hopefully in attempt to get me off of the moon. I've written out comments using the '#' character that the computer doesn't "see" to help guide you through my code.

The section labeled “science mumbo jumbo” has my beautiful theory translated into code that the computer can read!! It calculates the force on a rocket due to the planet's gravity. From that force it determines how much the rocket is moved by the gravitational force. This turns out to be a system of differential equations that are integrated numerically... ah never mind, you probably just want to launch stuff into space. In that case, just skip over this to the next section of code (I've supplied you with my lab notebook in case you are interested in the physics). In the future always just go below the "science mumbo jumbo" section to the section labeled “Important Stuff.”

Once you’re on the section labeled “Important stuff” you will need to activate the launch pad. This is done by simply changing the value of the variable “launch_pad_activation” from "False" to "True" (correct capitalization is important here). Then you will need to hit run to perform a test launch.