Rocket Pictures

As Michelle wrote we launched some model rockets this last weekend. Some of you might be interested in my history with Rocketry, both model and real.



I built my first model rocket when I was around 9 years old. As a kid I built a dozen or so rockets from kits and loved to get the Estes catalog and dream of owning all the rockets. When I became a teenager I stopped building and flying rockets and kinda forgot how fun they were. Ultimately my education led me to be involved with NASA and sounding rockets when I was at USU and helped me get a job at Orbital Sciences building real rockets. Then Michelle and I attended a model rocket derby for Orbital, and I decided that it would be fun to build some model rockets. I built a bunch of rockets, and attended a few launches at a local rocketry club and had a great time. Then the hobby kinda went on the back burner when me moved, until this last weekend when we again went to a launch. I am excited again to build the rocket kits I have and buy some more :).


Here are some of the pictures I took this last weekend. As Michelle indicated most of them are just rockets, but I did get a few people in some of them.


Here is a Baby Bertha we built with Jeff and Darla's family. You can't tell from the picture, but each fin is a different color. Each of the four oldest kids picked a color so we ended up with a blue, a purple, a red, and a green fin!

Here is the Baby Bertha being launched.

Here is my dollar rocket (there is a dollar bill in the payload section) being launched.

Here is my Legacy rocket being launched. It was just a little fast for my camera!

And here is our friend Jeff after he ran to retrieve the Legacy rocket.