Project 3 — Rocket Launch 🚀

Animate a rocket launching into the sky with a trail of smoke behind it. Meet Python’s for loop — a way to repeat something N times.

🎯 What you’ll build

A night-sky scene where a rocket flies upward, leaving a trail of smoke puffs behind it. Each puff appears one after the other, animated.

🧩 Python you’ll meet

• turtle drawing (recap)
• for loop with range() — do something N times

• screen.ontimer for animation (we already met this in Project 1, sort of)

• 🧩 4 steps
• ⏱️ About 30 minutes
• 🏆 Type: Explore

Note: RPF’s original uses p5. We use turtle so the drawing code looks different, but the for loop concept is the same.

Start → Step 1

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_{Adapted from Raspberry Pi Foundation — Rocket Launch under CC BY-SA 4.0.}