This rocket does NOT come with everything needed to launch. I bought this for my kid from Santa because The description said “fully assembled…ready to fly.” I don’t know anything about rockets, so I assumed it had everything needed to launch in the box.
However, you apparently have to purchase separately a launch pad system, recovery wads, and engines. Maybe this is common knowledge for rocket fans, but for a novice like me who was buying it for a kid, it would have been nice if the description was clearer about the extra stuff I needed to buy so we could have had everything here for Christmas. This rocket was from Santa so now my 7 year old is trying to figure out why Santa didn’t bring everything and why I’m ordering extra stuff from an actual company instead of writing a note to the North Pole.