| June 22, 2014
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SOUTHERN THUNDER 2014

Launch Window Closes on Another Record Thunder!

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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.

Category: Launches |
| June 21, 2014
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Southern Thunder’s Epic First Day Shutdown By Storms

Southern Thunder Storms 2014

 

Category: Launches |
| June 8, 2014
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HARA meeting on June 12th

We will have a makeup meeting on June 12th at 7:30PM in the ERC. This is our only meeting between now and Southern Thunder. All members are encourage to come and take a role in ST14 range duties.

Our Agenda will be:

  • Greeting
  • Southern Thunder Plan: Daniel Cavender
    • Launch is June 21st & 22nd
    • Setup is June 20th starting @ 4PM
    • Taking Volunteers
  • UCP Summer Camp Family Day: Laura Schertz
    • Stomp Rocket Building and Launching
    • Family Day’s are June 20th & July 18th
    • 11:00AM – 12:00PM (Setup at 10:30AM)
    • Taking Volunteers
  • Guest Speakers: Falcon Rocketeers TARC Team
  • Pizza Social & Hands-On:
    • TARC Team & Mentor Appreciation Party
    • HARA to provide free pizza & drinks
    • UCP/HARA Stomp Rocket Pre-Building
    • 100 Rocket Salute Rocket Building
    • Playing “Cool & Really Cool Rockets 2”
Category: Meetings |
| May 21, 2014
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Ten Years of Southern Thunder

For ten years the Tennessee hills have echoed the roar of Southern Thunder rockets followed by oohs and ahhs of the flyers. Here are some scenes of the past fun, if you need incentive to plan to come.

At Southern Thunder

What memories will we build in this eleventh round? Be there and share them.

Category: Launches |
| May 19, 2014
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NASA USLI News Coverage Report from UT

Local team Vanderbilt University is prominently featured in this report on the NASA Student Launch in Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

 

And here is another video featuring MSU and other teams. This is what rocketry is can bring to education. No other program quite lights the fires of imagination and exploration.

Category: News |
| May 17, 2014
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Watch NASA Student Launch Live From Utah

nasa_logoNASA’s Student Launch Initiative Reaches its apogee today with all University teams arriving at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Western Utah. Several of HARA’s member and friends are there to participate or support the launch.

University of Alabama, Vanderbilt University, and Mississippi State are just a few of the teams that come to HARA launches to practice. Our friends Chuck Pierce, Eddie Jeffries, Fred Kepner (HARA’s TRA Prefect), Julie Clift, Lee Brock (PMW), and Chris Dondandville are there now setting up the range and managing logistics as the teams prepare for launch.

The launch is streamed live on NASA TV (click here). Launch Coverage starts at 8AM.

 

Category: Launches |
| May 17, 2014
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Interstellar Looks Out Of This World

From Writer/Director Christopher Nolan, Check out this new Space Flick starting Mathew MaConaughey, and Anne Hathaway.

Category: News |
| May 6, 2014
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Smoke Trailing TARC 2014

It was another active student rocketry school year for HARA as North Alabama had ten teams out of the total of thirteen for the state. Besides these teams there were five others from three schools in middle Tennessee that we assisted. For all the rockets fired it was the first time since 2009 that only one team from Huntsville made the top hundred nationally. That sounds like quite a bust from the six teams that went to the finals last year, except Read more

Category: TARC |
| April 30, 2014
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Falcons Counting Down to TARC Finals

This is a nice article written by Falcon team member Jack Aslan that captures the excitement of preparing for the Finals May 10. The Huntsville team is the only group from Alabama this year to attend.

http://nextgen.yourhub.com/blog/rocket-challenge-update

2012 TARC finalist Victor Murphy recently put into words the impact the TARC program can have saying, “This is life changing. I think this has significantly changed my career choice. Before I wanted to design and build houses, but for sure now I want to be an aeronautic engineer.”

Category: Outreach |
| April 25, 2014
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Interested in LDRS 33? Coming in July 2014

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Ever heard of LDRS? How about Large and Dangerous Rocket Ships? LDRS 33 will be held in Wisconsin at Richard Bong Recreational Area (the Bong). Research launches are held July 17-18 and commercial launches are held July 19 – 20. Check out some of these video clips from the Science Channel!

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