I was part of a workshop for new schools that want to compete in the Student Launch Initiative contest sponsored by NASA. The students have to build a rocket that will go one mile up and carry a payload that does something. The something is their choice. You can see some of our previous projects at http://www.sli.uah.edu/. The workshop help new teams see how it is done and the get their level one certification.
The group form Iowa state made a film of the launches. It is a little long (he was not big on editing out dead space or he liked everything)but shows about 15 launches (20mins. total time). The first rocket was a big one to show the student what their finished products might look like. It also showed what would happen if the main chute came out too soon. It came out at about 4000 ft. and the rocket drifted nearly a mile. They found it later that day. About 11 mins. in is a fast section to the hamster dance song. Kind of entertainment. At the end of this section at about 13 mins. is a drag race between two rockets.
USLI Rocket Workshop Rocket Launch 2008 from Rick Hanton on Vimeo.
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As you can tell, this was posted by none other than Dr Marlow!!!
I just watched the video. Pretty cool rockets. At the end it looked like the wind was picking up. Did that cause problems with retrieving the rockets.
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