The Joy of Rockets

I was asked to give a three minute talk at the TED conference to try to convey some of the excitement about the hobby. I should have just quoted Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen:
"In terms of sheer coolness, few things beat rocketry."

Instead, I put together a photo montage, and commented on the stream:

The rocket projects have grown significantly since then, so consider this a teaser for future posts. Oh, and here's a sweet video montage from the last BALLS launch. It opens with a ground shot of our big QP rocket blasting off...

I am heading off to Dairy Aire tonight... to launch video rockets and a manic blinky night rocket, rebuilt from the prior post... Will bring cameras... But will likely be offline for a couple days... If you are near central California, you might want to check it out.

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When the weather gets nice, a sprog's thoughts turn to rocketry. Photos of the first mission of the bottle-rocket season after the jump.
Estes is the major brand in low power rocketry, with Quest as an alternative. If you launched rockets as a kid, it was probably Estes. They make black powder motors in cardboard cases.
For those of you near Silicon Valley this weekend, Maker Faire is a cornucopia of geek delights and sights.
That Professor Goddard, with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react - to say that would be absurd.

Great site!

Stan

By Stan Smith (not verified) on 12 Jul 2009 #permalink