Near Miss with Rocket

9 responses to “Near Miss with Rocket”

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   Apollo 11

   Oct 1, 2008 at 1:30 am

   That was 12 inches away from being a great shot! 😀

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   jurvetson

   Oct 1, 2008 at 1:45 am

   Oh yeah….
   

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   Apollo 11

   Oct 1, 2008 at 1:49 am

   It’s a Rental! ROFLMAO!

   The boys at the office are going to love this!

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4. 

   biotron

   Oct 1, 2008 at 1:54 am

   you’d be kicking yourself if you hadn’t taken the excess waiver, and had to cough up for a "kerbed" alloy caused by "bad parking"…

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   Victor1

   Oct 1, 2008 at 3:52 am

   Yeah, but ‘curbed’ roof edge would have been harder to explain… and while we’re all engrossed in this nosecone, other pieces are falling still…

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   Vix Too

   Oct 1, 2008 at 2:50 pm

   Incredible capture! Video camera in nose cone would been cool.

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7. 

   rocketmavericks

   Oct 1, 2008 at 11:52 pm

   I got another P motor and airframe. Maybe we could try 2 for 2? I wonder how the car would look in that crater we made? You up for another rental to find out? If you got the rental, I got the rocket!

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   wayneOs

   Oct 17, 2008 at 9:15 pm

   So you did post it! Sneaky way to get more videos of all your own flights……
   The fin can would have made a better clip as it came in really hot; still burning…… Maybe next time? We found it about 1/2 mile away, close to where the keg landed! Lucky shot either way….. Thanks for the nosecone back, we can use it again next year.

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   jurvetson

   Sep 22, 2014 at 3:52 pm

   And the view from Wayne’s rocket above…. P.S. Congrats Wayne on DSSP’s mission to station (over the BALLS weekend no less!) The SpaceX launch is bringing SPINSAT to station. It is the first flight demo for Wayne’s electric solid propellant thrusters. His company, Digital Solid State Propulsion (DSSP), utilizes electric propulsion to enable small satellites to make orbital maneuvers that have generally not been possible in the very small, mass-constrained satellites such as CubeSats and nanosats. The satellite’s 12 thruster-clusters burn an inert solid fuel, and then only when an electric charge is passed across it.

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