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Succesful Launch!!!!!!!!!
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We never made water rockets when i went to camp or academy ofcourse that was along time ago. We did build regular model rockets though.

Yeah, we made real modle rockets. The old kids always placed bets on which one would explode on the launch pad. One always did. I am proud to say though that it was never mine.

I never had any explode but i did have the rocket the first year come apart in two pieces. But i recovered the payload part which is whats important. And the second year i couldnt recover it because it ended up on the other side of the hiway and they wouldnt let us go and get them.

The second or third trip to camp, I spent more time than usual to construct my rocket...I sanded down all the fins, perfectly glued them to the body, etc..

I had a perfect launch..it went up, came back down...and then half of it got run over by a car!

It had landed with half of it just off to the side of the road that's in front of the rocket launch area...just before we were allowed to go get them, a car came and ran it over! That was a downer...

That really stinks Vince. Hey at least it went somewhere. Just think how much more dissapointing it would have been if it didnt fly or even worse, exploded.

Actually the first year i was there mine didnt get off the pad the first attempt i think the aligator clips were touching or something but the counselor went over and fixed it and it launched fine.

The only day it rained was the last day when we were to launch our rockets so we never got to.

Well when i was at ASA we didnt get to even build rockets. I dont know why we spent enough time playing cards we could have built them and atleast it would have been space related.

one of the times i went, it looked like it was going to rain and the councilors thought we werent going to be able to launch. they discussed giving us the engines untill someone pointed out we werent allowd to carry them on to the plane. luckily, it didnt rain and we were able to launch.

I think it rained every year i went except for the third trip. Its part of summer in alabama.

every time i have gone, with that one eception the weather has worked out fine. Sure it rained, but on days when we had indoor activities schedualed, so it wasnt bad.

Well the rain never really affected me specificly at camp but at asa when i went it did the ms's. They had thunderstorms the dat they were supozse to do scuba and also on the day they got rescheduled for it was beginning to look like they would never get to dive but eventually they did.

well, thats good. i would hate to miss an activity because of weather. i am just thankful that i have never been affected.

Well although the rain didnt really affect me that week the heat did. Some days it was over 100 degrees and we couldnt do some of the outdoor stuff.

that really stinks!!

Yeah it did. We couldnt finish area 51 and i dont know why noone thought to do it inside. We didnt get as many space shot rides as we could have either. Other than that their wasnt too much we missed.

well, missing that much stinks

Yeah it did kind of stink but not as bad as our day counselor just skipping stuff because she didnt want to do it and then making us play cards instead. The biggest thing we missed because of this was our museum time.

i imagine then that you all didnt do too well on the museam scavenger hunt.