Rocketry Blog Post #1: Designing rocket 1

For the start of our rocketry unit, my group had to make an inspiration board for our rocketry team. What the inspiration board does is it gives us ideas for our rocket. It also has all the research we did so we can go back to it for more ideas for our design. For our design. We decided to use a pointy nose cone because it will make the rocket more aerodynamic, a thick body because it can fit more air and we chose parallelogram fins because these types of fins are more skinny and our rocket will travel faster. We have 3 fins for balance and we made sure there were no air bubbles on our rocket because air can leak out from there. 

After we started building our rocket, we faced a really big problem. The nose cone. We had a perfect size, but we taped it over and over because air bubbles were on the nose cone. We had to tape the nose cone together using small pieces of tape. However, our fins were unstable, really unstable. We had to trim our rocket fins to make it stand properly. Our rocket colors are red, white and blue because those colors are the colors of the US and we want to represent our country. I really do hope our rocket is a success.

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