Rebel Rockets-Day 11

Today, yet again, we made another complete rocket. We decided to go launch it at the school, but at a different location. We found an area larger than the field we were using before. We drove around for a while around town to look for a larger field, and we did find one, however, it was pretty far away. We thought that it wouldn't be too smart to drive the half hour to the field daily, so we just decided to use a different part of the school. The launch today was pretty bad. There was something wrong with the way the rocket was attached to the launch pad, and the rocket did not even come off of the launch pad. It stayed on the ground and just flailed around. We were quite disappointed. After the launch, we tried to fix the launch pad, because it broke. Also, more construction was done afterwards on parachutes and fins.

-Christian

We decided to move our launch site, instead of using the cross country field we moved to the one on the practice football field. We think this is a better area and it was much better than driving to a large field a long ways away. The launch was messed up though, the rocket somehow stuck to the launchpad and then the rocket started spinning around all crazy-like. It was pretty annoying that something like that happened. We had to fix our launch pad using duct tape and did some more construction. Disappointing day.

-Mike B.

We found a new place to launch our rocket. We decided that we would use the area next to the baseball field because it was more open. If we used this area, we figured that we could find the rocket more easily. When we tried to launch the rocket, it stuck to the launch pad and spun out of control. The test was invalid. After this, we decided to fix the launch pad and call it a day.

-Ben W.

Today we drove to find a better field to launch the rockets. We found one, but it was farther away then we expected to find one. We decided not to use that field today, but it remains an option for the future. We then built another complete rocket. For the launch we decided to move to a different part of the high school. We attempted to launch the rocket, but it stuck to the launching pad and spun around on the ground. The launching pad was damaged, but not beyond repair and we were able to fix it with duck tape before moving on.

-Scott

We decided today that we were going to use a better field so we don't lose our rockets again. This time we used the area next to the baseball field because the other fields we found were too far away to always go there to test a rocket. We are getting the hang of building these rockets so it did not take to long to set up a rocket that was ready for a launch. Yet the rocket spun out when we ignited it and the launch pad broke. We think that the rocket stuck onto the launch pad because we applied the tape to strongly. We ended up having to fix the launch pad with some glue and a lot of duck tape.

-Kushal