mopower1958
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My daughter who is in her 3rd year at Mississippi State with a full academic scholarship is on the Space Cowboys Rocket team. This is not her major but her boyfriend is an Aerospace engineer major and enlisted her as the outreach director. She and some of the team go to middle schools and give presentations on rocketry to generate interest among younger kids in Aerospace. " This is the newly repainted Little Red Express at the New Georgia Landfill in Fultondale, AL (Birmingham). I got my level 1 certification on Oct. 13th. It reached an alititude 1,312 feet.
The second picture is Cody and me after the successful launch and recovery of the Little Red Express.
The group picture is all the participants of the USLI Worshop which is what we were doing there in the first place (we went to Huntsville to give our spill on Friday)."
The above was part of her letter to me on receiving her certification. They have to assemble a rocket from scratch, install GPS monitoring to be able to recover the rocket,a parachute to slow the decent, determine altitude reached which has to be as close to (1200 feet I think) as possible,and be able to reuse the rocket after recovery. All this is monitored by NASA officials at designated time and places with air space clearance.
She did a presentation in Shreveport in front of several college rocket teams and NASA engineers. They were so impressed they invited the SPACE COWBOYS rocket team from Mississippi State to Huntsville,Al. (NASA) to present her speech at the NASA facility.
Below is a pic of her rocket which she named the LIL' RED EXPRESS after my LRT I used to own.
Thanks for the time to let me brag. She is a great daughter who is smart, unlike her redneck,shadetree mechanic dad!
The second picture is Cody and me after the successful launch and recovery of the Little Red Express.
The group picture is all the participants of the USLI Worshop which is what we were doing there in the first place (we went to Huntsville to give our spill on Friday)."
The above was part of her letter to me on receiving her certification. They have to assemble a rocket from scratch, install GPS monitoring to be able to recover the rocket,a parachute to slow the decent, determine altitude reached which has to be as close to (1200 feet I think) as possible,and be able to reuse the rocket after recovery. All this is monitored by NASA officials at designated time and places with air space clearance.
She did a presentation in Shreveport in front of several college rocket teams and NASA engineers. They were so impressed they invited the SPACE COWBOYS rocket team from Mississippi State to Huntsville,Al. (NASA) to present her speech at the NASA facility.
Below is a pic of her rocket which she named the LIL' RED EXPRESS after my LRT I used to own.
Thanks for the time to let me brag. She is a great daughter who is smart, unlike her redneck,shadetree mechanic dad!
