Launching and Graphing Rocket #2

Last week we were launching our first rocket, I had high hopes for the launch because we had improved our rocket a lot from the last launch

Our launch went very well. Our rocket went pretty high and my job was fun. For this rocket launch the job I was assigned was pumper, the pumper is the person who is in charge if pumping the air in to the rocket to create pressure that will be released when the chamber opens. Pumping the rocket was very easy and I pumped it up to exactly 50 PSI. Being a clinometer reader this time was fun, but easier than last time because we did the launch on a cloudy day, but on the first launch it was sunny.

The graphing portion of Rocket #2 was impressive but disappointing. When we graphed our score using the graphing paper we saw that our rocket went 16ft less then it did last time. We were very disappointed about it but we are going to push threw and do good next time, we plan on doing this by putting the nosecone on the outside instead. We think that this will help because we noticed that the nosecone crumpled in on the last launch.

Cooperation during this portion of the project was pretty smooth. Our group worked really well together and we launched with no arguments. On the graphing stage we also cooperated pretty well. I think that it went smoothly because we always agreed on everything.

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