Day 5: March 9, 2011

Who knew that a force that can't be seen mean so much to our success? Whether it was God, the wind, or both, something happened again for the second day that helped us to reach our goal of ten seconds. We started the day hopeful that we would have the same success as yesterday. Our first launch could not even be classified as a launch. It did not get very far off the ground because the liquid started to spurt out of the rocket before we launched it. It had a nice parabolic shape though. Our second launch, like those of previous days, was a little over 3s. Our parachute did not deploy at all and the rocket did not go high. Our third and final launch was 11.8s :) Once again it was a lot of things helping us at the same time. Our cone stayed for the right amount of time and then our parachute opened up just as the gust of wind came. The cone, wind, and parachute were all important elements that lead to our successful and final launching. Our rocket was laid to rest on March 9, 2011 and now resides in the trashcan in Mr. Blake's room. He wanted to end his life on a high note of reaching 11.8s. RIP physicspluckers rocket! WE LOVE YOU AND WILL FOREVER BE INDEBTED TO YOU.