Do it Again
The Thrifty Rocketeer blog continues.... It was just the other day when I was trying to explain what Model Rocketry was that a young feller made the comment. "That's boring." "What do you mean," I asked, "How can launching a rocket be boring?" "You spend all this time building a rocket-ship, and then you take it out to a playground and stuff it with something to make it go...and then you launch it into the air... but it comes right back down again. And then you just do it again?" "Yes," I had to agree, "but it can be very exciting, as you try to get everything right so it goes smoothly the next time." "Boring," he stated again. "You never get to send it into outer space." This stopped me in my tracks, as I had never really thought about it that way. As I thought about it, I thought what was usually my favorite part of the process. And I came to realize that I have been buying and building low-power r...