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).
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
Category: News |
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.
Category: Outreach |
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
Category: Meetings |
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
Category: Launches |
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.
Category: Launches |
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 |
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.
What memories will we build in this eleventh round? Be there and share them.
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