The Eagle rises

Break out the 3-D glasses folks!!

APOD (one of my favorite sites on the 'tubes) posted this on the anniversary of Apollo 11. Enjoy....

dr

May Post-Launch report from Roy

Roy Potter's May post-launch report is in with all the gory details on the weather and the winds. Those who stayed out of the trees seemed to have a great time and even the tree'ed folks seemed to have a reasonable time of it. Remember that there's Orangeburg on the 7th with a ROSCO sport launch, and of course if you want to get out of town before all the DNC craziness then Freedom Launch is for you. Click the "Read More" link and read on.... dr

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It's 1969 again!

Jeff Jones sent me a great clip from his Nikon R10 that he had out at the May launch. It's posted on the ROCC YouTube channel. Check it out... dr

MCC Payload flies at Wallops Island

This, from Doug Knight on Thursday...

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Way. Too. Cool.

Congratulations to your team Doug, safe travels home.

Weekend Update...

From John Bergsmith Tuesday morning...

"I drove by the field yesterday to determine if flying would be possible this coming weekend. Didnt take long to determine that it would not be. The corn has grown to a point were finding a rocket would be almost impossible. We might have a possibility of a low power launch in the future was the lower field is cleared out."

So, with that in hand, this weekend's launch is scrubbed. We do have several Cub Scouts things coming up, and I had a lovely chat with Kelly Jenkins yesterday about his first O'Burg weekend and having a really great time. That's always an option for most of you.

If anyone can find us a field PLEASE contact one of the officers and see what we might be able to arrange, even if it's not an HP field. At least that would keep us meeting on a regular basis.

dr (for jb)

The Transit of Venus

I've mentioned before a website that both Jean and I love, that is Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog at Discover Masgazine. Phil used to work on the Hubble and is one of the most requested astronmoers out there, having wirtten several books, including "Death from the Skies", hosted his own series on the Discovery channel and many, many articles on the web.

His site has a bunch of web links for Tuesday's Transit of Venus across the sun. It's located HERE.

Unless you're going to be around for the next one in like, 117 years, now's your shot!

Enjoy....

dr

May 6th launch report from Roy

Roy's report on our flight activity from the May 6th ROCC Midland, NC outing is below. Sorry for the delayed posting, I wanted to get beyond the 20th launch and then forgot to come back and post it. My apologies all... dr

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Space-X fly-by

Prior to the docking the Dragon spacecraft is making a fly-by of the ISS. You can watch the feed here:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/dragon-iss-flyby/

A new day is dawning in low earth orbit!

dr

Sapce-X static fire to be webcast live

Thanks to my wife Jean finding this one, from Boing Boing. Space-X will webcast their live firing on Monday, 4/30/12 starting at 2:30 eastern. More info is HERE

dr

And the results are in...

NAR adviser Sandy Houston has crunched all the flight data on the April "dry run" contests. To read his detailed analysis, please, click the Read More link below... dr

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