Saturday, November 15, 2008

The Final Blast...

 
After many months of planning and hard work, today was the big test for Sam and his senior project group.


Everything is set up and ready for countdown!


The engine fired successfully, but not perfectly...the nozzle cracked. Sam called the test 85% successful. I call it a HUGE success for students building their first rocket! The best part...everyone made it back safely and there were no injuries! Way to go CSUS engineers! You made us proud!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, that was really awesome!

Great job to the whole team!

Thanks for posting the photo and the video, mom.

-Kyle

Steve's girl said...

Hi Kyle,

It was awesome, wasn't it? I was happy to be able to post the video. You will have to see it on the TV the next time you come home...it is even more impressive!

Ed's girl said...

That was awesome!! Too cool!!!

Steve's girl said...

Hi Dee,

It was cool. It is kinda funny because some of the other seniors were very negative telling Sam's group, "it's just gonna blow up; be prepared for writing a long failure report". Now they are all saying, "wow, that was impressive". Sam's senior project teacher told him that it was, "awesome and a major milestone achieved".

Thanks for the comment and tell your boys I said hi.