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VCD 005_At the Presentation of Arthur C Clark Award' 87 to Dr John R Pie...

2011-12-02T11:26:00.000-08:00

Amateur Rocket High Lights

2011-12-01T11:03:00.000-08:00

Here is a link to some cool rocket highlights:
http://www.spacevidcast.com/2011/06/11/amateur-rocketeers-and-beautiful-space-live-show-4-15/

NASA’s MSL Curiosity rover begins its voyage to Mars – SpacePod 2011.11.28

2011-12-01T10:42:00.000-08:00

NASA’s MSL Curiosity rover begins its voyage to Mars – SpacePod 2011.11.28: NASA's most ambitious Martian rover ever is on its way to the red planet. This is your SpacePod for November 28th, 2011

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission lifted off the launch ...

Secretive Air Force space plane nears orbital record

2011-11-30T11:25:00.000-08:00

Secretive Air Force space plane nears orbital record

Happy Birthday Carl Sagan

2011-11-09T08:59:00.000-08:00

In this Skeptics Distinguished Lecture Series talk at Caltech from 1999, three science biographers take an illuminating look back over the life and legacy of one of the 20th Century’s most celebrated astronomers.

We Choose The Moon

2011-11-08T11:02:00.000-08:00

You can relive the Apollo experience anytime with the following link:

http://wechoosethemoon.org/

Ron Paul Still Standing

2011-10-25T16:47:00.001-07:00

Space Shuttle Through the decades

2011-10-13T10:02:00.000-07:00

The Astronaut's Guide To Life In Space

2011-10-11T09:54:00.000-07:00

Vista House that overlooks The Columbia Gorge

2011-09-27T14:25:00.000-07:00

Welcome
Check out this area if you are ever traveling along the Columbia Gorge

The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12

2011-09-13T13:49:00.000-07:00

More Proof that Man was on the Moon:-)

2011-09-06T16:47:00.001-07:00

These are really cool images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that were recently released. Check them out.

Don't Know Much About The Universe

2011-08-26T15:32:00.000-07:00

Kenneth C Davis is the author of the "Dont't Know Much About" book series. All of them are worth reading. I hope you like the link.

R/S

NPR.org - Sizing Up Space: A Visual History

2011-08-23T10:41:00.001-07:00

Sizing Up Space: A Visual History
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/21/138560459/sizing-up-space-a-visual-history?sc=emaf

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Area 51

2011-08-08T13:17:00.001-07:00

This is another cool video about a new book on Area 51.

C-SPAN video of Interest

2011-08-08T11:10:00.000-07:00

rocketaholic,

video program After Words with Jane Blair in the C-SPAN Video Library. You may view by clicking on this link or copying and pasting it into your browser:
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/JaneBl

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Marine Jane Blair author of "Hesitation Kills" on MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan ...

2011-08-08T08:50:00.000-07:00

Commercial Space Federation

2011-08-03T08:45:00.000-07:00

I thought this video was pretty cool:-)

Hail to NASA and the Space Shuttle program

2011-07-08T08:56:00.000-07:00

Today is the launch of the last Shuttle Atlantis. It is a shame that the program is coming to an end.

Successful Launch of Minotar Rocket on June 29th 2011

2011-06-30T16:05:00.000-07:00

http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=280606
A Minotaur rocket roared into orbit from the Virginia coast Wednesday night, successfully deploying a small spacecraft to make the benefits of satellite technology more accessible to deployed U.S. military forces in Afghanistan and other war zones in the Middle East.

Here is a link to the video of the launch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBiMGLEd0RU&feature=feedu

Who really gives a S@#$!!!!!!!

2011-04-13T13:02:00.000-07:00

Who really gives a s!@#$ about anything now days. Peace???? there will never be peace or happiness for all ever. There will be lulls, but something will always happen, good or bad. All we can ever do is try to be prepared, and help one another.
Sanity? What is sanity? One man's sanity is another man's chaos.

Please reply, .................

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Glory Launch Good, Failed to reach orbit though:-(

2011-03-05T10:35:00.000-08:00

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

2011-03-03T14:03:00.000-08:00

The Flame Trench: Atlas V Rocket Rolls Out For Friday Launch

2011-03-03T13:58:00.000-08:00

The Flame Trench: Atlas V Rocket Rolls Out For Friday Launch: "An Atlas V rocket with a mini military shuttle onboard rolled out to its oceanside launch pad today, but the weather forecast for Friday cal..."

Discovery went up Perfectly

2011-02-24T14:45:00.000-08:00

STS-131 Launch via Space Shuttle Discovery in HD - 04/05/2010

2011-02-21T13:41:00.000-08:00

There is No God, By Penn Jillette

2011-02-18T13:34:00.000-08:00

There Is No God
by Penn Jillette

November 21, 2005
I believe that there is no God. I'm beyond atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy — you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do. You can't prove that there isn't an elephant inside the trunk of my car. You sure? How about now? Maybe he was just hiding before. Check again. Did I mention that my personal heartfelt definition of the word "elephant" includes mystery, order, goodness, love and a spare tire?
So, anyone with a love for truth outside of herself has to start with no belief in God and then look for evidence of God. She needs to search for some objective evidence of a supernatural power. All the people I write e-mails to often are still stuck at this searching stage. The atheism part is easy.
But, this "This I Believe" thing seems to demand something more personal, some leap of faith that helps one see life's big picture, some rules to live by. So, I'm saying, "This I believe: I believe there is no God."
Having taken that step, it informs every moment of my life. I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more. Just the love of my family that raised me and the family I'm raising now is enough that I don't need heaven. I won the huge genetic lottery and I get joy every day.
Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.
Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate. I don't travel in circles where people say, "I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith." That's just a long-winded religious way to say, "shut up," or another two words that the FCC likes less. But all obscenity is less insulting than, "How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do." So, believing there is no God lets me be proven wrong and that's always fun. It means I'm learning something.
Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn't caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.

About the author:
Penn Jillette is the taller, louder half of the magic and comedy act Penn and Teller. He is a research fellow at the Cato Institute and has lectured at Oxford and MIT. Penn has co-authored three best-selling books and is executive producer of the documentary film The Aristocrats.

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Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (widescreen)

2011-02-17T11:39:00.000-08:00

2001 Space Odyssey Interview w. Arthur C. Clarke - part 1

2011-02-17T11:38:00.001-08:00

Arthur C Clarke predicting the future in 1964

2011-02-17T11:38:00.000-08:00

Lego NASA Crawler/Transporter

2011-02-14T09:42:00.000-08:00

Crap From The Past Radio Show

2011-02-10T13:28:00.000-08:00

I ran across this on an open archive forum, along the same line as the strange video below about Space.

Internet Archive video -- Reflections In Space

2011-02-10T10:14:00.000-08:00

Video Link: <href="http://www.archive.org/details/ReflectionsInSpace">http://www.archive.org/details/ReflectionsInSpace</a>

2011 Seattle Fireworks at Space Needle

2011-01-08T11:28:00.000-08:00

CES | Canonical

2011-01-06T10:41:00.000-08:00

CES | Canonical

2010-12-28T11:26:00.001-08:00

Can ET and Christmas Co-exist

2010-12-22T08:57:00.000-08:00

Imagine there's intelligent life somewhere out in the universe. Then think about the message of Christmas.

The essential Christmas story is that Christ came in human form to live among us on Earth to save all sinners here. What if there are intelligent beings out "there?" Do they have Christmas too?

If the question sounds silly, some people take it very seriously.

In a soon-to-be published book, First Contact, The Washington Post's Marc Kaufman quotes Gary Bates, the head of Creation Ministries in Atlanta, who says he is deeply uncomfortable with the notion of extraterrestrial life.

"My theological perspective is that ET life would actually make a mockery of the very reason Christ came to die for our sins, for our redemption," he told [Kaufman]. Bates believes that "the entire focus of creation is mankind on this Earth" and that intelligent, morally aware extraterrestrial life would undermine that view and belief in the incarnation, resurrection and redemption drama so central to the faith. "It is a huge problem that many Christians have not really thought about."
Oh, but they have. And not only Christians.

Epicurus, long, long ago, proposed that life exists on other celestial bodies. Aristotle proposed the opposite: that life is here and nowhere else. Aristotle's view was taken up by the Church. In 1600, philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for, among other things, believing in a "plurality of world," so this question is old, contentious and sometimes dangerous.

There could be other beings, also intelligent, created by God.

- Jesuit astronomer Jose Gabriel Funes
But doctrines can change. A statue of Giordano Bruno now stands in Rome, near the Vatican. Two years ago, the director of the Vatican Observatory matter-of-factly referred to potential life in the universe as our "extraterrestrial brothers."

"As a multiplicity of creatures exists on Earth, so there could be other beings, also intelligent, created by God." said Jesuit astronomer Jose Gabriel Funes. "This does not conflict with our faith because we cannot put limits on the creative freedom of God."

That remark got a lot of attention, from, among others, the always alert TV comedian Stephen Colbert (himself a Catholic) who invited a Vatican astronomer from Arizona, Brother Guy Consolmagno, to come on the show.

Brother Guy, (previously trained as a physicist at MIT) told Colbert that the Church has always recognized extraterrestrials, beings with wings who live in a zone that is near but not of Earth. They are called "angels." "The whole mythology of angels in the Jewish and Christian tradition shows that the Church, the religious people, the people that wrote the bible, were not afraid of other intelligent creatures who are also worshipping God," Guy said.

Colbert, speaking tongue-in-cheek but for many in his audience, wondered "Doesn't this upset our place at the center of God's creation?" Quoting the catechism, about how Jesus was "born of the Virgin Mary and became man," he wondered if other intelligent communities have their own saviors, also sent by God, and if it turns out there are multiple Christmas stories, doesn't that somehow diminish our own?

I know Colbert is a comedian, not a theologian, but he's obviously smart, sensitive and maybe even a believer. More important, he knows how to press a point. Though he pushed Brother Guy pretty hard, the physicist-turned-monk seemed very comfortable with the idea of extraterrestrial Christmases.

When Colbert went all the way and asked could there be different saviors on different planets across the universe, to the audience's astonishment, Brother Consolmagno didn't object. Instead he smiled and said, "I'm not there, I haven't found out.'

So that's the question: What happens to Christmas when there are not one, but two, three or 40,000 civilizations across the universe? Can the baby Jesus and ET share the holiday? No, says Gary Bates. Yes, says Brother Guy. This is not a real question yet, because the only intelligent life we know is here. But if that changes, will Christmas change too?

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Marc Kaufman's new book, First Contact (Random House), will be published in April, 2011. Brother Guy Consolmagno's book on astronomy is called The Heavens Proclaim, Astronomy and the Vatican. Stephen Colbert's conversation with Brother Guy Consolmagno — based on an article Marc wrote in the Washington Post, can be seen here. My own contribution to this theological discussion, a Christmas cartoon fable called Santa and the Space Nicks describes an intergalactic gathering of Santa Clauses.

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2010-12-11T18:50:00.001-08:00

X-37B Space Plane Lands

2010-12-04T13:07:00.001-08:00

The U.S. Air Force's mysterious X-37B robot space plane returned to Earth today (Dec. 3) with a successful landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California before sunrise.

Air Force officials hailed the unmanned X-37B space plane's successful landing, though its mission remains shrouded in secrecy because of its classified nature. But Vandenberg's 30th Space Wing did not shy from snapping photos of the X-37B vehicle, known as the Orbital Test Vehicle 1.

We Are Building a Religion Lyrics by "Cake"

2010-09-14T16:12:00.000-07:00

We are building a religion,
We are building it bigger
We are widening the corridors and adding more lanes
We are building a religion.
A limited edition
We are now accepting callers for these pendant keychains
To resist it is useless,
It is useless to resist it
His cigerratte is burning but it never seems to ash
He is grooming his poodle
He is living comfort eagle
You can meet at his location but you'd better come with cash

Now his hat is on backwards. He can show you his tattoos
He is in the music buisness he is calling you "DUDE!"

Now today is tomorrow and tomorrow's today
And yesterday is weaving in and out
And the fluffy white lines that the airplane leaves behind
Are drifting right in front of the waning of the moon

He is handling the money. He's serving the food
He knows about your party. He is calling you "DUDE!"

Now, do you believe in the one big sign?
The double wide shine on the boot hills of your prime
Doesn't matter if you're skinny. Doesn't matter if you're fat.
You can dress up like a sultan in your onion-head hat

We are bulding a religion. We are making a brand
We're the only ones to turn to when your castles turn to sand
Take a bit of this apple, Mr. Corporate Events
Take a walk through the jungle of cardboard shedies and tents
Some people drink pepsi. Some people drink coke. (coke)
The wacky morning d.j. says democracy's a joke.

He says now, "Do you believe in the one big song?"
He's now accepting callers who would like to sing along
He says, "Do you believe in the one true edge?"
By fastening your saftey belts and stepping towards the ledge

He is handling the money. He is serving the food.
He is now accepting callers. He is calling me "DUDE!"

Do you believe in the one big sign?
The double wide shine on the boot hills of your prime.
There's no need to ask directions if you ever lose your mind
We're behind you. We're behind you.
And let us please remind you
We can send a car to find you
If you ever lose your way

When You Sleep Lyrics from "Cake"

2010-09-14T15:53:00.000-07:00

"When You Sleep"

when you sleep where do your fingers go?
what do your fingers know
what do your fingers show
where do your fingers go

when you sleep
do they tremble on the edge of the bed
or do you fold them neatly by your head
do they clench like claws against your own skin
when you're living your day al over again

when you sleep
when you sleep where do your fingers go?
what do your fingers know
what do your fingers show
where do your fingers go

do they play guitar in a latin bar
are they strangers or lovers
do they drive your car
are they swimming submissively
sex acts of life
or just cutting through jello with a very sharp knife

now zeus was a womanizer
always on the make
but hera usually punished her that zeus was one to take

when you sleep where do your fingers go?

are they pulling out weeds from the dusty soil
but then never rewarded with the fruits of their toil
are they scratching their nails on the chalkboards of death
only seeking attention when everyone in the room has left

when you sleep
when you sleep where do your fingers go?
what do your fingers know
what do your fingers show
where do your fingers go

when you sleep
do they tremble on the edge of the bed
or do you fold them neatly by your head

A Man Who lived a full life

2010-09-14T15:19:00.000-07:00

Dad passed away this past Sunday on September 12th. he would have been 81 this October. My dad lived a full life and lived it to the maximum. Yes he is human and was not always at his best, but he was a caring and loving man. He taught me a lot directly and indirectly.

Tacoma isnt a bad place:-)

2010-09-14T14:52:00.000-07:00

Well I have been spending a couple of weekends up in Tacoma Washington helping my 94 year old Grandfather inlaw with some yard work. I have been lucky that the weekends were cool sunny and clear. The grass was pulled up first then there was the landscaping canvas that was laid down, followed by a lot of wood chips.
The yard is really coming along quite well.

A Good Quote from A. Sachs

2010-09-10T11:12:00.000-07:00

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
A.Sachs

Honoring James P. Hogan

2010-09-10T10:05:00.000-07:00

A very well known Science Fiction author has passed away suddenly. The first book I read of his was "Inherit The Stars". The book can now be read or downloaded on line for free. The author is actually an electrician and started writing as a contest to see who could wirte a better book than Arthur C. Clarkes 2001 book. Mr. Hogan won the contest.
The book was interesting due to the fact that is was set in the not too distant furture when mining for Helium 3 on the Moon was being conducted and they found a deceased astronaut that they had thought died due to his life support system failing. When they did the autopsy though, they discovered that he had died more than 50,000 years ago.
This threw the whole idea of Adam and Eve into a new light.
You may want to read this book yourself, it was a very interesting book to say the least.

Views from the Columbia Gorge

2010-08-30T15:02:00.001-07:00

These are just a few pics of the things I have seen so far in the Columbia Gorge area.
The water fall is called Multnomah Falls. You can hike up to the top, which is almost a mile and is a good workout if you do not stop until you get to the top. The dog in the picture is a miniature dachshund that has a bomber helmet on with goggles. That dog was loving having the wind in his face.

Copenhagen Suborbitals Heat-1X team

2010-08-23T14:47:00.000-07:00

http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/index.php

This is something that is going to be launched within the next 6 days. This looks very interesting.

It has been a while since I posted anything:-)

2010-07-21T15:07:00.000-07:00

Well,

It has been some time since I have posted really anything of substance. I have moved from Southern California last year. I miss launching with the San Diego Rocket club DART. I have been to one rocket launch in Oregon with the OREO club. It is a cool club, but I do miss Fiesta Island.

Anyway, I myself have been busy with work and have been enjoying the Columbia Gorge and swimming each and every day. It helps get the day going and helps me decompress after work. Life is going good so far.

33 Minutes Trailer :: LONG PROMO (inHD)

2010-05-27T08:39:00.000-07:00

NASA.gov - STS-132: Atlantis Comes Home

2010-05-26T09:28:00.001-07:00

Check this video out:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=14380998

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STS 132 Ascent Highlights Video

2010-05-25T13:54:00.001-07:00

The video provides some details for scale builders and has some cool video to boot.

R/S

Spaceflight Now | This Week in Space

2010-03-31T12:05:00.000-07:00

Spaceflight Now | This Week in Space

FW: Check out Stephen Hawking: Humans are

2010-03-31T10:20:00.001-07:00

Check out Stephen Hawking: Humans are

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/03/stephen-hawking-humans-are-entering-a-stage-of-selfdesigned-evolution.html

Burt Rutan sees the future of space | Video on TED.com

2010-03-20T09:38:00.000-07:00

Burt Rutan sees the future of space | Video on TED.com

cool stuff

2010-01-06T11:06:00.001-08:00

How Did Moon Travel Change Astronauts? - ABC News

2010-01-02T14:47:00.000-08:00

How Did Moon Travel Change Astronauts? - ABC News

It's a Blast! Team America Rocketry Challenge

2009-09-08T15:43:00.001-07:00

Here is something that highschools can compete in. Check it out:-)

HIMARS

2009-08-12T09:36:00.001-07:00

The new artillery asset that is now in the Marine Corps inventory as well:-)

Fox Battery - HIMARS SHOOT IN IRAQ

2009-08-12T09:32:00.001-07:00

Dark Paradise

2009-07-23T11:25:00.001-07:00

This is a cool song:-)

Videos of Interest

2009-07-02T11:15:00.000-07:00

Links of Interest To others:

The biggest HPR launch of a Saturn V rocket: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwvjPPOR3IM

BFR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nahu9h1fitc&feature=player_embedded

Other interesting Links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoYPxuCPY2U&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4-CyIBlKNs&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m79UO4HOQmc&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vPbmgyWmnU&feature=player_embedded

PEPCON Explosion in 1988

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJVOUgCm5Jk&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KuGizBjDXo&feature=player_embedded

"Model Rocketry - The Last Frontier" (Part One)

2009-07-02T11:07:00.001-07:00

This is an all time classic that discuses the hobby of rocketry the best

Model Rocketry - The Last Frontier (Part Two)

2009-07-02T11:06:00.001-07:00

One of the best Videos that talks about rocketry

Orphans of Apollo Trailer

2008-12-04T11:39:00.001-08:00

Falcon 9 Nine Engine Test

2008-11-25T16:39:00.000-08:00

11/22/2008

The full mission duration test firing of the Falcon 9 first stage lasting nearly 3 minutes. The nine Merlin engines produced 855,000 lbs. of thrust and consumed over half a million pounds of liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene during the test.

Original Old School Classic Oompa Loompa Music Videos

2008-11-12T09:00:00.001-08:00

something for fun

Peter Schilling - Major Tom

2008-10-28T15:01:00.001-07:00

I Like this song:-)

This is a Cool Site

2008-10-28T14:35:00.000-07:00

This is a great place to learn about onboard video rocketry.

Estes Oracle Rocket Launched from Fiesta Island 10-26-2008

2008-10-26T14:31:00.001-07:00

Video from the Fiest Island Launch with the Oracle Rocket

Dart Launch on October 26 2008

2008-10-26T13:00:00.000-07:00

Todays Launch at Fiesta Island was terrific. The weather was perfect. There was a light crowd and everybody there did a great job with safely launching their rockets and staying organized. I was able to launch a Hobby Lobby Radio Cotroled SR-71 Blackbird successfully. I know there were several people there with video cameras and cameras, so I hope someone got a good picture or a video clip of its launch and landing. It had a little nose damage, but it will fly again on a higher impulse motor next time.

"Always Another Dawn" By Scott Crossfield

2008-10-24T10:13:00.000-07:00

I have been looking for the book titled "Always Another Dawn" by Scott Crossfield. One of the famous test pilots that flew several experimental plays during the 50s and 60s. It was sad that he had passed away two years ago, but he left a lasting impression on thousands of people. The Scott Crossfield Foundation web site has a great brief prsentation by Scott, and it also has the book "Always Another Dawn" on line to read. I thought I would pass that info on here to others.

Enjoy

India in Space

2008-10-23T07:27:00.001-07:00

India will be searching for Helium 3 on the Moon. I think they may surprise us all.

Dart Launch October 12th 2008

2008-10-14T10:04:00.002-07:00

The Sunday launch with DART was terrific. There was a nice crowd out there and the weather was perfect. The Scratch built Proton Rocket was launched on an Aerotech G-71 Redline motor.

Plaster Blaster VII Interceptor M

2008-10-14T10:04:00.001-07:00

The Interceptor M Launch at Plaster Blaster 7 was picture perfect:-)

Just some classic rockets

2008-09-16T10:19:00.000-07:00

Here is a collection of some of my favorite rockets. Of course this is a very small amount of what I have.

Who do you think is the most famous???

2008-08-07T10:20:00.000-07:00

Who do think is the most famous?

Space and Science Link

2008-08-07T07:09:00.000-07:00

The National Geographic Society has a very cool web site that you fellow rocket and science enthusiast may like to checkout.

Comic-Con this Weekend in San Diego

2008-07-26T12:05:00.000-07:00

Well, this weekend will be fun at the Comic-Con. I myslef will be checking out some of the stuff on Sunday. In the meantime, I will be going to see the new X-Files movie. Yes I have and will always be an X-Files fan.

Nice Launch Day at Fiesta Island 24th May 2008

2008-05-25T21:36:00.000-07:00

Well, the launch day at Fiesta Island San Diego was pretty good considering that the previous days had some pretty strange weather. The NAR rocket club DART run by the current president Mike Jerauld was a good day. From 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. there was a large variety of rockets launched. Everybody there had a good and safe time. The San Diego Rocket club has a long history and I hope that they get an archive going soon that will have a copy of all the news letters tha have been circulated. Several good people that have helped keep the club operational have passed away and will not be forgotten. They have made a terrific impression upon me, and I hope to be able to spread their enthusiasim that they have given me to others.

Systeme Solaire

2008-04-30T21:45:00.000-07:00

July 20th 1969

2008-04-22T00:22:00.001-07:00

The Bay Colony Rocket Club of 1981

2008-04-21T23:05:00.000-07:00

The 1980s was a good era. Where I grew up we had started a little rocket club and it was a lot of fun.
My dad has now moved to an assisted living residence now and his house has been sold. I was given a big box of pictures to go through from the old house. I ran across these photos and it took me back. That was a good era. Retired astronaut Robert Crippen and his family lived in our neighborhood. He would attend some of our club meetings and it was motivating. The Space bug was in our club and I have never lost that.
I wonder where everyone else is that used to be in the club back then?

The TMRK Pegasus Model Rocket

2008-04-15T19:18:00.000-07:00

The True Modeler's Rocket Kits make some very great model rockets that are worth the cost. I have enjoyed building their scale model rocket kits a lot. I had the great fortune to be asked to beta test one of their up and coming kits. It is a scale model of the Orbital Science Corporations Pegasus rocket.
I had previously built their four inch diameter Jupiter C kit and a smaller scale model of the Scout. Each one has been fun to build and a joy to launch.

As you can tell from lift-off, it was launched on a cluster of three Estes D12-3 motors, and it was picture perfect:-)

The lift-off was really nice. The Pegasus did a slow roll during ascent. It looked like it was a controlled maneuver.

A Good Talk By Burt Rutan

2008-04-11T23:37:00.000-07:00

Clustered Rocket Design HPR 1993 Article of Interest

2008-04-10T14:13:00.000-07:00

Here is a great article that I thought would be of good use for those interested in clustering a rocket:

Telescope Principles Training Video

2008-04-10T13:34:00.001-07:00

I thought this was something worth passing on about telescopes.

Im a Member

2008-04-04T19:23:00.000-07:00

View my page on Our Planet

My Nephew is a Rock Star:-)

2008-02-16T12:00:00.000-08:00

I know that most of my items are of rocket videos and about my enthusiasim for space. But I am also a big Rock Band fan and avid drummer myself. So I am happy to brag about my Nephew who is in college, but is also a rock star on the side. He is with a group titled "Is He Safe". They have a good fan base and I think you may see them on TV sometime in the very near future. Please check out their music when you have a chance.

Man in Space 2 of 8 - Early Rockets

2008-02-05T19:51:00.001-08:00

more classis rocket launches

Man in Space 1 of 8 - Prehistory of Rocketry

2008-02-05T19:39:00.001-08:00

I thought you would like to see this video clip.

Rocketry Lesson Plan Supplement

2008-02-05T19:27:00.001-08:00

This is a good video from the Federation of Galaxy Explorers (aka FOGE).

Rocketry - Estes Historic Document - 1961

2008-01-31T22:12:00.001-08:00

This is a great video about Estes Rocket Company.

Bomarc DVD Preview

2007-12-15T17:31:00.001-08:00

Anyone interested in the history of the Bomarc needs to get this DVD.

A TRIP TO THE PLANETS with WILLY LAY 115 minutes 1960...

2007-12-14T15:19:00.001-08:00

This is a great classic video from Willy Ley

Kids in Model Rocketry

2007-11-21T11:57:00.000-08:00

Kids in Model Rocketry
LAUNCH Magazine Online - Wednesday, 21 November 2007

High Power Rocket Chase at XPRS '07

2007-11-10T11:36:00.001-08:00

I love the music with this video (RUSH).

Fox 11 RocStock

2007-11-10T11:34:00.001-08:00

RocStock media coverage

Altitude prediction program

2007-10-30T10:37:00.001-07:00

A free altitude program
that may be good to try is WinRoc (http://www.drmoore.org/winroc.htm).
It is a Windows based program, but is very easy to use.

For Those Rocketeers getting ready to Certify

2007-10-27T17:02:00.000-07:00

For those new to the hobby of Rocketry who are looking for some software that may help with your rocket design. One source that is good is Nakka Rocketry

He has some great programs that will help with calculating the correct amount of 4F black powder to use for ejecting your recovery system when using an altimeter or any type of ejection system. One basic calculation is to use approximately 1/4 gram of black powder (4F) for every 20 cubic inches.

I will post my Level 3 project soon and the steps necessary for a successful qualification flight soon.

Flight of the X-Wing

2007-10-08T11:21:00.001-07:00

Prepping of the big X-wing launch at Plaster Blaster 2007