PHASE 1 of Model Rocket - Building StagePurpose:
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Pre-Lab Thoughts I was honestly scared of building the rocket wrong or accidentally reading the directions wrong and messing up one of the steps. I was excited to build a rocket but also scared of the outcome. What if it didn't work? I was afraid of the rocket failing. I was interested to see the whole process of building a rocket, and I was beginning to think about how hard it is for NASA to build real rockets to be launched into orbit. I thought about how it must be so agonizing to build something of that scale, and then watch either launch successfully or totally fail in front of your eyes. Although our rocket is not as serious as theirs, I was scared to see the outcome. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ What Happened? A Rocket Story! After Andrew quizzed us multiple times on what the different parts of the rocket were, we finally passed! Andrew gave us two options, the Payloader 1 rocket or the Payloader 2 rocket. We saw that other groups were all doing the Payloader 1, so we decided to pick the Payloader 2. We also enjoyed the idea of putting a lego figure in the plastic tube (one that resembles our favorite Academic coach) We took our model rocket and took it to our desk to unpack the supplies. There was a large pamphlet of instructions that given along with the different supplies. We began to follow the directions written in the instruction manual. First one of us grabbed the white cardboard tube and went to mark the lines. I was in charge of making the lines while Sammie and Kazuha glued the Balsa wood pieces together. It was difficult drawing the liens on the tube for I couldn't reach the doorway corner like it asked. So I used the shelf in the class to draw out my lines on the cylinder instead. I messed up a couple of times, leaving our cardboard tube sloppy. Sammie and Kazuha glued the balsa wood together with wood glue, it was difficult, for the drying time took very long. It was hard to keep the wood stuck together, and often times we would accidentally move the table, ruining the gluing process. We found the wood glue messy and it took awhile before we had our balsa wood pieces firmly together We then began to create our engine mount. Kazuha began following the directions to do that while Sammie and I began to do the "Fin attachment" area of the process. It was very difficult to glue on the fins straight, and so Andrew gave us a rocket holding stand. It held our rocket base in place, with little sockets to hold our fins as it stays and glues We then finished our engine mount, gluing it together with wood glue and later beginning our pay load section. We began connecting the upper areas near the rocket's nose together. We also created a hole in the balsa cylinder, which was a part of the payload. We began preparing the payload at this point. We then inserted the parachute and elastic shock chord into our rocket body, with our fins now dry onto the rocket's body. We attached the balsa wood tube to the plastic tube and placed the rocket's nose on the opposite half of the plastic, (as seen above). We we finished preparing the first part of the building process. We finished the overall body of the rocket, for the other part like adding the motor and such is done right before launching our rocket. Which is something we will get to in a bit. We then decorated our rocket, paying tribute to our favorite TA and calling it "S.S. Bae Bray". We were supposed to put stickers and such but all the "tattoos" that were supposed to print onto the rocket weren't working efficiently. We went and just put star stickers and printed out words on our rocket. We were to launch our rocket in the next few days,
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