135 ft. That’s how high our second rocket went. Not nearly as high as our first rocket. I’m a little frustrated but it’s alright it still went high. At least now we know that a towering nose cone does not do us any favors.

 If we could try again I think the rocket should have had a different material for the fins that could have made it lighter, therefore, making it go higher.  I wish that I could have known this before building the second rocket I didn’t learn much from the first rocket so that might have been what made the second rocket not develop from the first one. 

If I ever wind up doing rocketry again at least I know precisely what not to do. 

The rocket launch was a lot different than expected. I never thought that the rockets would go that high!

 My groups rocket went so high when it came back down It made a hole in the ground and completely crushed our nose cone. We used special increments called clinometer to measure the height. 

After we graphed it turns our rocket went … 143 ft.! it went so high! I can’t wait for our second time at trying to build one that will even higher than our first design. 

When I found out that we were going to do a unit on rocketry i got so excited, I could not wait to start. I had always loved science I had been waiting to do this since 3rd grade when I first heard about it!

Designing the rocket was the hardest part, we kept disagreeing on how tall it would be, fin shape ,the amount of fins, ect. we finally came to a conclusion for it to be 16 in. tall, pointy and skinny nose cone and 3 fins the body. We thought this would be the most aerodynamic design for our rocket. But we didn’t want it to be light or the wind would knock it of course.

We made the nose cone pink  and attached it to the body of our rocket with white tape then we raped the body of our rocket with black tape and attached the fins with hot glue and tape to insure they wouldn’t fall off during the launch.

I can’t wait to see how high it goes!