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Well i guess you can add that to the list of stuff we didnt get to do. I probably could have done it anyway id been their 3 other times before.

Our rocket was called 'Dud' and let's just say it lived up to its name

Well none of my rockets were ever duds they always flew fine it was just recovering them that was the problem.

My first time at asa I was a PS and so we were going to name our rocket PS, but one of the immature guys in my group got a hold of the stickers and named it PISS instead. It was just stupid, but at least our rocket flew the best of the groups.

That is pretty bad. Come to think of it i never named any of my rockets over the years. Don't know why i just never thought of it. I did habve a friend the first year who named his Herp 1 because he loved lizards and wanted to be a herpatologist when he grew up.

The only reason I always end up naming mine is that my groups always seems to finish before everyone else, so we just spend half an hour decorating it with stickers and stuff. It keeps our 'busy' minds amused!

I wish we could have built rockets at ASA but for some reason none of the asa teams that week built them.

One of my favorite parts about ASA was building the rocket. My group built a rocket with two stages, and we were just depending on the first stage of the rocket to catch on fire to light the second stage. I got the idea to douse the first stage with hairspray..... it would have worked, too, if only we had poked holes in it so oxygen could get to it. Our payload went across the highway, too, and we had even made little people out of balsa wood, representing the four of us. I guess we died, then...

We built 2 stage rockets at space academy. We didnt have anything to put in them though. At camp they gave us crickets to launch in them ad they actually survive.

Oh gods... the Rockets.

When I went to Academy, Level I, we weren't allowed to build our own individual rockets (like I did in Camp - I still have mine BTW), we were broken up into smaller teams of 5 or so. A friend of mine who I made at Camp decided he was going to keep the rocket, but not do any of the work building it, so we built it for him, then sabotaged it so that when the second stage lit, it shattered the bottom stage. That sent the rocket straight over toward the Mariott. Then, as that ran out the parachute tried to come out but we'd cut most of the strings to it so the rocket just crashed to the ground. That might have been mean but it was sure darned funny!

It was mean but your right it was definately funny. Luckily at camp and academy level 1 when i went we got to build oir own individual rockets. I have my space camp rocket launch on video tape it was recorded for our team video that year but the academy level 1 video didnt record it.

Ahh the memories of Camp, eh?

Okay, okay I know it was mean but my philosphy was if you wanted it, you had to help build it otherwise it was ours to do with as we please. And we did!

Our rocket launch never made it on the video. Just some parts of the missions, our training, the swimming stuff at the University, and Graduation.

Richasi

The first year i went the video had the 5DF, 1/6th chair, MAT, Us putting on space suits, our space station presentation, our rocket launch, pool activities, parts of our shuttle mission, and graduation.

The Second year it had the 5DF, 1/6th chair, MAT, pool activities, and parts of our 2 shuttle missions, and graduation.

That's cool. I only did the video the one year (sorry if I said that already) -Space Academy. What I wouldn't give now to have a video of my camp experience. Even if it is to see some of my friends again.

I also wonder sometimes what kind of experience I would have had (and with what team) if I hadn't decided on the video.

Richasi

Sometimes i think it almost seems like destiny ahwt teams i ended up on. Every year i went i had great friends and the team always got along so well it was almost like it was meant to be. Especially my AC and ASA teams. Both teams got so close by the end of the week it was like having 10 and 16 best friends respectively. It almost seemed like we'd known eachother for years but most of us had only just met the day we arrived. Its hard to believe how close a group of people can get in only a weeks time.

Sounds like you had good teams. The two I was on (and these were young people) were always difficult. I usually had a trio of friends that I got close too, but the whole team was so mixed it wasn't funny.

Richasi

Well at Camp i had a few close friends on the Team but we were really good friends. Unfortunately i lost touch with them over the years. at Academy Level 1 the closest friends were my roomates but also a few of the girls on the team as well. At AC and ASA the whole team became friends.

I only kept up with one of the friends I made in Camp for about a year after... maybe two. It turned out that he was from the place I spent most of my summers at anyway so I was over at his house a lot in the Summer of 89 and 90. But 1991 changed it all. I never saw him much, or spoke with him. I kept up with a couple of my Academy friends through mail for about 6-8 months after. Spoke to one on the phone a year later but basically I've not seen or heard from anyone since about 1992/3. That's a little depressing to me sometimes because I wonder where all these people are now... and what they're doing.

Yeah, my ASA team was really close, too. Maybe that's just how it is with ASA teams, because of the EDM and everything else where everyone is working with each other all the time.

You're also a little more mature at that stage (at least one would think so). If I had gone to Level II when I originally planned I probably would have been very serious. I think even now if I go back I'd be more serious than I'd want to be - having fun, of course, but when it came time to do the missions and stuff i'd be serious.