Epic Rocket Cam

6 responses to “Epic Rocket Cam”

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   jurvetson

   Dec 8, 2011 at 12:07 am

   blastoff. (That’s me standing bottom left taking photos):
   

   Good view of parking and observation rock:
   

   rising and arcing over further
   

   Totally horizontal, under thrust
   

   A cool image of BP pop off a fin motor set against the sun

   

   Pop of lower chute by motor ejection (upper chute not visible, popped earlier by computer)
   

   

   

   

   And a safe recovery, ready to fly again.

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2. 

   jkoshi

   Dec 8, 2011 at 12:13 am

   That is pretty epic!

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3. 

   solerena

   Dec 8, 2011 at 1:40 am

   And very colorful!

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   scleroplex

   Dec 8, 2011 at 2:53 am

   it’s always exciting to see our earth’s curvature 🙂

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5. 

   Mentifex

   Dec 8, 2011 at 10:15 pm

   It looks like a suborbital flight which did not attain escape velocity. Reminds me of those famous lines by Wernher von Braun, "I aimed for the stars, but I hit London," and "The bigger they are, the harder they fall."

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   msamaclean ©

   Dec 11, 2011 at 2:26 am

   Cool series!
   Here’s a site for last minute holiday gifts you might find handy….;-D
   http://www.labgrab.com/gift-list/2011-science-gift-list

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