Rocket Report

I.

Materials:

2 two liter doctor Pepsi bottles ~ $5

1 roll of black DuckTape ~ $2

1 cardboard box for wings ~ free

1 pair of scissors ~ borrowed

1 thick paper for nose cone ~ free

1 large plastic bag ~ free

4 long lengths of string ~ free

A lot of cotton balls ~ free

1 egg ~ provided

3 printed pictures of rappers ~ Bellarmine's Tuition

3 cans of man power and intuition ~ priceless

II.

Step 1: take you first bottle that will be the capsule for water, set that aside.

Step 2: grab your second bottle and cut it directly in half in regards to the middle of the bottle.

Step 3: take your card hard and cut out three identical wings

Step 4: align all wings equidistant from each other on the bottom bottle

Step 5: thoroughly DuckTape until wings have immense stability

Step 6: take the top bottle and fold thick paper into come shape and tape it to top

Step 7: cut holes into your paper bag and thread the four strings to create parachute

Step 8: DuckTape the four ends of parachute to inside of top bottle

Step 9: place cotton balls into top of top bottle and secure them

Step 10: place egg on bed of cotton and secure it

Step 11: fold parachute like an accordion and stuff it into bottle

Step 12: connect both bottles

Step 13: fill bottom bottle with 1/3 to 1/4 full of water

Step 14: correctly set up for launch

Step 15: murder your egg

III.

As we prompted to launch our rocket with confidence everything went according to plan up until it reached its peak. Assuming both bottle would decouple at its peak was very wrong. Due to the upward force, the bottles were lodged together and were unable to separate. If everything would have gone according to plane, the battles would've decoupled allowing for the parachute to deploy and bring the egg safely back. But as out rocket was still in one piece as it began to turn back towards the ground, it started its decent to the death of our egg. All we could do now was watch our rocket plummet back towards earth looking like a nuke descending on the school. On impact, we knew we were murders. Seeing the initial impact with the ground and the the six foot high bounce that followed we were reluctant to see the damage done. As we proceeded to unravel the news we found compete mush in our capsule and expect to hold trial in egg court for our heinous crimes.

IV.

Knowing that our problem stemmed from the lack of separation one huge thing that we should have probably reevaluated was our upper bottle or capsule. Thinking about it after the fact makes me come up with new possibilities. Rather than relying on the top bottle to separate from the rest of it, we could have something different. Something along the lines of creating a an actual capsule that simply gently rests on the top of the rocket and and a higher chance to fall out a deploy a parachute would have been a much wider design to go with.

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