Mavericks Team Picture

9 responses to “Mavericks Team Picture”

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   P_I_O_T_R

   Sep 30, 2008 at 8:42 am

   Looks very impresive. Good work … Succesfuly launched to earth orbit? 🙂

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   rocketmavericks

   Sep 30, 2008 at 5:24 pm

   Dream Team of Rocketry – Missing is Erik Charlton (Photographer), Richard Hagen, Rob Briody, Seth Wallace, John Coker, our chuck wagon master Victor Riece

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   jurvetson

   Sep 30, 2008 at 5:49 pm

   thanks for completing the list! Erik was dutifully shooting the group at the time, and so his presence here is missed (but this particular shot was by the "rocket pit crew" Jr. Mavericks acolyte)

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   Resh B.

   Oct 1, 2008 at 1:38 am

   Where are McCain and Palin in the picture? Bad joke, I know. 😉

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   Victor1

   Oct 1, 2008 at 5:09 am

   We’re making room for them in the rocket.

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   tylerpdx

   Oct 1, 2008 at 5:33 am

   Still amazed at how pretty that coupler was.. Still trying to decide what was more impressive, the rocket or the crater.

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   jurvetson

   Oct 1, 2008 at 7:41 pm

   Yeah, Dick is a master machinist!

   And the forward igniter (not visible) is pretty cool too:

   

   Here’s a final test video where Tom detonates the separation charge to make sure the machined aluminum structures will work to separate the booster and sustainer stages of the rocket.

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   jurvetson

   Oct 22, 2008 at 10:48 pm

   RocketsMagazine has a great video montage, opening with this launch…

   Videos best viewed full screen size.

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   jurvetson

   Oct 28, 2008 at 6:30 pm

   tyler: That amazing coupler was the missing clue as to the final fate of the rocket. A shard of it was found at the crater. The CSI report from Dick concludes: "We now know that the booster did not separate from the sustainer, and that the booster followed the sustainer right into the playa and left behind a couple of traces of its prior existence."

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