Category Archives: Science

SpaceX Launch

The SpaceX just launched a rocket called Falcon Heavy, on Tuesday, February 7, 2018. It was really exciting because it was the first ever rocket to be previously used and cargo capsule on the same mission. That proved that rockets can be successfully reused. Also, the rocket was also able to land. That is not something that happens much. The launch will be reducing the price of launches. That will help space exploration because the rockets are almost at an affordable price. If rockets are more affordable there will be more going into space.

I feel that the the Falcon Heavy is incredible. It is the worlds most powerful rocket! Also SpaceX is always thinking of new ways to improve and make new and old rockets. That is important because rockets will be more helpful to scientists and maybe humans can even go in them. That would be a big improvement from where spaceX is now.

I’m still wondering how the creators of Falcon Heavy came up with these exact ideas. Did they have to make a lot of choices? Was it easy? Did they have something in mind they were thinking about doing? In the beginnig of the creating how long did they think it would take them? I’m also wondering how they thought of the idea to put a Tesla in the rocket?

Blog post #4 – Building Try #1

Jordan and I started building our machine! I was really excited in the beginning to then realize it wasn’t as easy as it seemed. I thought that all we had to do was copy the sketch. That was true, but we also had to make sure everything was standing and in the right spot. We also had to find the materials we were using.

Our first thing was making the ramp. It didn’t take too long and it was pretty simple. Then we had to put books out like dominoes. The books had to be high so we put books flat below them. Keeping the books still and not shaking the table while standing up the other books was very hard. They kept falling! Once that was finished that part, we tried it. It started out by “Rube Goldberg” calling us. Then we set it up again and added one more step. We added a ramp. It took us a little while to decide on what we were going to do for the ramp then we found a little car track that would go down a stack of books. A marble would then go down that ramp and hit dominoes. This was the hardest part. Getting the dominoes to stand! Once we built that we kept doing it over and over.

During our whole learning process we learned it took a lot of patience. We had only done 4 steps so far. ( half of the whole thing) and we already tried it so many times. The good thing is that some steps taught us what other steps would be like.

 

Rube Goldberg #3 – My Thoughts

It has been a day since I made my sketch and I have been trying to visually think what our design will look like off of the paper. I have been worried about some things such as – will it fit on the table, how long will it take to build, what happens if, and many more simple thoughts. I’m hoping the building process doesn’t take longer than expected or it will not be good. Me and Jordan don’t have that much time. But what we do have are many ideas. Hopefully my next blog post will be about succeeding in the first steps of building!