But Papa Legba would disagree, due to his complete disregard for the mass of the fuel in his Object A and B rocket model.
When referring to a person on a skateboard throwing a medicine ball, he correctly labels the person as Object A and the medicine ball as Object B.
In the cannon scenario, he also correctly labels the cannon as Object A and the cannonball as Object B.
But in the rocket system, although he has correctly labelled the rocket as Object A, he has failed to recognise that the rocket's fuel is in fact Object B. Struggling to find this mysterious and illusive Object B, he fumbles around in desperation as to where it is, and ignorantly labels the atmosphere as Object B?
All 3 of the above systems, generate a propelling force on Object A, due to the opposing momentum force of Object B.
With the 'person on skateboard' system, the person is propelled due to the forcible ejection (momentum force) of mass (medicine ball) out of the system.
With the 'cannon' system, the cannon is propelled due to the forcible ejection (momentum force) of mass (cannonball) out of the system.
With the 'rocket' system, the rocket is propelled due to the forcible ejection (momentum force) of mass (fuel) out of the system.
No doubt Papa Legba will respond with his usual repetitious rhetoric, but it will be interesting to see how he explains, in his opinion, that the fuel has had no momentum force imparted onto it during the process of combustion and forcible ejection out of the engine nozzles.
If we look at the rocket's fuel before ignition, we can obviously see that the fuel has X amount of mass, but nil velocity.
But after ignition, we can obviously see that the fuel which has now exited the rocket system as the exhaust with X amount of mass, is now travelling at extreme velocity.
The previously stationary fuel, which is Object B, has just had a HUGE amount of momentum imparted onto it, and obviously this exact same amount of momentum must be transferred back onto Object A.
And guess what, this Object A is the rocket and it is now been propelled in the opposite direction to that of Object B.
So in conclusion, it's now been established that the 3 systems referred to above, all generate a momentum force on the system's Object A, due to the forcible ejection (opposite momentum force) of Object B out of each of the systems.
Therefore Papa Legba, for you to disagree with the above, you will have to demonstrate that the mass of fuel has NOT had any momentum imparted onto it during its combustion and forcible ejection out of the rocket's engine nozzles.
Your explanation is greatly anticipated.