Requiem for a Rocket, or How I Tore Our Field a New One...

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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, stratosphere to subteranean. Our condolences.

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Chuck Rudy

The Rapier and Thor send their condolences (or they would if they didn't have dimes on their eyes).

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Double murder (March 13, MC2 launch). Just call me Alabama OJ... :-/

Chuck

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Chuck Pierce

Perhaps viewing

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will help you feel a stronger kinship to some of your rocketry brethern?

-Kevin

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Kevin Trojanowski

Ok Gene, what was the problem? Forgot ejection charge? Didn't arm electronics? Forgot electronics? Used Super Glue instead of shear pins?

I have to admit, it was a pretty lawn dart. And deep too.

-Rob Bazinet

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Rob Bazinet

sniff!

do you prefer "Taps" on Bugle, or "Amazing Grace" on Bagpipes?

- iz

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Ismaeel Abdur-Rasheed

Well, I managed to crash this one four times!(Okay, it was four similar ones;) All of the wreckage was above ground, though.

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Mark E. Hamilton NAR #48641-SR

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Mark Hamilton

The rocketeer's cycle of manic-depression:

5000 feet up..........yeehaw! 5005 feet back down.........aw crap. +McG+
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Kenneth C. McGoffin

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Victor Zepeda

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Victor Zepeda

Making the transition from atmospheric to lithospheric flight involves an abrupt change in Cd at the transition point....

- Rick "singularity" Dickinson

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Rick Dickinson

Sorry to hear about it Gene. Time will heal the wounds.

Randy

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Randy

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