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Somehow Luna has the notion that rockets are too loud, but she still likes them. She also told me she chose this special Elsa rocket dress for the launch. We loaded her favorite Elsa figurine (in my hand) into the payload bay labeled “Luna Module” and took her on a suborbital flight. Despite a flight anomaly, when all four fins ripped off at the supersonic transition, the rocket came back softly by parachute, and all was recovered (minus one fin that I will replace). She went 0 to 800 MPH in one second!
When I advance the video frame by frame, the four fins pop off 1 second after launch (3 visible here, about equidistant from center):
So, I ran a RockSim of the flight:
Looking at these numbers, she pulled 49 g’s (so…Elsa faced 49x force of normal gravity! Fighter pilots max out at 9 g’s. She is one tough astronaut… solid plastic that one.)
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