Differences

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 9:27 pm

Succesful Launch!!!!!!!!!
LOL

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 10:03 pm

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.

ISSpaceGirl · Post by **ISSpaceGirl** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 10:09 am

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.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 10:50 am

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.

Post by **Vincent** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 10:54 am

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...

ISSpaceGirl · Post by **ISSpaceGirl** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 11:01 am

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.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 3:01 pm

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.

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 6:13 pm

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

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 8:39 pm

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.

ISSpaceGirl · Post by **ISSpaceGirl** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 3:22 pm

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.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 5:08 pm

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

ISSpaceGirl · Post by **ISSpaceGirl** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 11:54 am

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.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 12:02 pm

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.

ISSpaceGirl · Post by **ISSpaceGirl** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 12:45 pm

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

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 4:21 pm

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.

ISSpaceGirl · Post by **ISSpaceGirl** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 7:21 pm

that really stinks!!

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 8:38 pm

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.

ISSpaceGirl · Post by **ISSpaceGirl** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 2:39 pm

well, missing that much stinks

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 4:52 pm

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.

ISSpaceGirl · Post by **ISSpaceGirl** » Wed Jul 17, 2002 9:19 am

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