Homemade rocket with explosive astronaut ejection

[dominicm]

All things considered it went quite well although it could so easily have been a disaster. The vertical launch rail holding up the rocket slightly restricted the launch but...it did get off the ground.

 

[pawnshopmike]

Ain’t going to lie, I was expecting a little more excitement out of such a big rocket. But now, I kinda want to build one. I use to play with model rockets 30 years ago. Wow. I’m getting old.

 

[dominicm]

So were we Mike! We wont have the same problem next time. You learn from these things and improve for next time.

 

[Ron2927]

The videography of the astronaut was great!

 

[dhal22]

Ain’t going to lie, I was expecting a little more excitement out of such a big rocket. But now, I kinda want to build one. I use to play with model rockets 30 years ago. Wow. I’m getting old.

Agree, was expecting waaay more. I did Estes rockets 40 years ago and had some go 1000(?) feet in the air. Some were 2 stage. Easy for me as a kid though as my dad and uncle were aeronautical engineers with the Saturn V project on their resume and most likely did most of the work on the Estes rockets.