NARAM 56 attracts visitors from across the Galaxy
One of the best NARAM in recent years was well attended with many rockets (and no raccoons) launched from ‘A to O’ in motor size. The weekend sport launch included the student and intern flights mentioned in the post below while the rest of the week was competition and evening presentations. For the fifty-sixth year rocketeers convened to renew acquaintances, hear industry announcements, learn new skills and fly more rockets. Read more
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HSV’s Falcon Rocketeers launch experiments on ULA intern rockets
(Original Story from AL.com)
Huntsville area middle and high school students had the chance to send their experiments out of this world in the 2014 Intern Rocket Program Launch sponsored by United Launch Alliance and Ball Aerospace.
Falcon Rocketeers, comprised of students from Butler, Grissom, Pope John Paul II high schools and Hampton Cove Middle, built two payloads that were shot into space last week in Pueblo, Colo.
ULA blasted off three intern rockets that launched 17 payloads. Alabama cotton along with teddy bears, barometers, accelerometers and a GPS device was shot into space, according to the ULA website.
The team solely represented Alabama in a field of 13 teams from around the country, including Colorado and Ohio.
Video Courtesy of ULA.
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Chris’s Rocket Supplies To Be At Launch Saturday
Chris has confirmed that he is going to come up to the August 9th launch. You can write Chris at tbonerocketeer@mchsi.com or checkout his website (click here).
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Incredible time lapse of the crescent Moon setting behind the Saturn V
Setting crescent moon and the Saturn V rocket at the Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL, 29 July 2014. Taken with a Canon 6D, Canon 200 mm f/2.8 with 2x extender, 1 sec exposures every 3 sec. The rocket is 7 miles away.
Crescent Moon and Saturn V Time Lapse from Roy Spencer on Vimeo.
Credit: Dr. Roy Spencer, Huntsville, AL
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HARA Helps Future Space Pioneers Take Flight at UCP Summer Camp
On June 20th, the day before Southern Thunder, an excellent group of HARA members and volunteers showed up to help these kiddos at United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) Huntsville’s summer space camp launch their paper stop rockets and their imaginations. These kiddos and their family’s cope with a variety of challenges daily, and none can be easy, but these kiddos have amazing attitudes. We are so grateful to have had the opportunity to share rocketry with them.
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HARA Meeting July 10th @ 7:30PM
We will have our regular HARA meeting on July 10th at the NASA ERC.
Agenda:
- Greeting
- On the Radar
- Tech Talk #1: Scale Rockets – Bill Cooke
- Southern Thunder Report
- Website & Social Media
- UCP Summer Camp Family Day: Laura Schertz
- Stomp Rocket Building and Launching
- Family Day on July 18th
- 11:00AM – 12:00PM (Setup at 10:30AM)
- Taking Volunteers
- NAR Safety Grant
- Equipment Upgrades
- HARA members filming with British TV Show
- Officer Reports
- Closing
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Scenes of ST 2014
It was another wonderful June weekend of rockets in the green hills of Tennessee. Southern Thunder presents itself as a showcase of rocketry great and small and rocketeers young and old. Here are some moments of the longest days of 2014, because of the epic fun we had and that summer solstice thing. Read more
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SOUTHERN THUNDER 2014
Launch Window Closes on Another Record Thunder!
Thanks to everyone who helped make Southern Thunder 2014 a reality. All of the planning, setup, and tear-down really is a tremendous amount of work and we appreciate all of the help. We also want to say thanks to everyone who came out to participate in this unique event. It is the community of people that make Southern Thunder such a great time. Thanks to the weather, we weren’t able to get our movie in or the 100 Rocket Salute, but we will keep those ideas in mind for next year. If you have any feedback or suggestions regarding Southern Thunder, please leave a comment.
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