PHASE 1.3 - Parachute!Purpose: To make a parachute for our scratch rocket. It's going to be homemade this time .The parachute will deploy after the rocket has launched and is ready to fall. It will help to safely bring the rocket back down to us without creating any damage of things or people with harsh impact from the falling rocket. Group Members: Sammie and Isabel! ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Beforehand Research: http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Model-Rocket-Parachute/ Using this website, we just viewed a really simple tutorial of how to make the rocket parachute. It gave us the list of materials and the directions in order to make one. Since this one was fairly easy, we relied on this source to help us. We used a simplified version of what this website gave us, for we lacked time and resources. RESEARCH BELOW vvvvvvv Materials:
Directions:
What Happened? - A parachute story Once we figured out a simple way to make it, we began gathering materials. Andrew had spare plastic bag type of resources in the lab, and so we just used those. Sammie got the ruler and measured 12 by 12 on each side, then she used a pen to trace out a perfect square. Isabel cut out the square once it was finished and I began cutting the string. I measured up to 12 inches, I wanted to make sure there wasn't too much or too little. As I cut four strings, we all tied them to the corners with holes. In just 10 minutes we finished our parachute. It was probably the simplest part of making our rocket. Once we finished, my group members waved it around in the air to "check"if it worked. Our parachute overall seemed fine. We saw that other group members made circle shaped ones, but we still went with the 12 by 12 design. FINAL THOUGHTS:
This part of our rocket was really easy to make. I think that most of the parachutes will work, and hopefully we did ours right.
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