The SystemsGo team is headed to Smith Point, near Anahuac, Texas down in the Houston area, in shifts this week, depending on necessity and availability. The first group, consisting of Gene Garrett, Rebekah Hyatt and Scott Netherland are leaving today, Wednesday since they have meetings to attend to coordinate contractors, vendors, and volunteers for the event.
Here are the team members listed above ready to leave for Houston today. 
Here the group is getting equipment ready to roll out. 
The rest of the team, Andrew Matthes, Patrick Miller, Justin Junell, Gary Hyatt, Phil Houseal and Christy Glass, leave Thursday morning and the last set, Chelsea Burow and Steve Burow leave that afternoon. This is the second year at this location for the Houston are launches.
The team will be setting up the launch site, and readying everything for an early start, as launches begin Friday, May 11, and continue through Sunday, May 13. This is new for this year as they have expanded to three days in this venue whereas last year it was two days. This is in conjunction with Fredericksburg launches cutting from originally four days to three. This was designed to help distribute the schools more evenly and encourage some Houston area schools still coming to Willow City to move to the Houston launch.
Launches will continue all day Saturday, and Sunday with a total of 15 schools launching a total of 56 rockets for the weekend. After completion of launches on Sunday, the team will be packing up the site and returning home.
The current launch schedule for Friday is shown below and may also be downloaded from SystemsGo website at the following address: http://www.systemsgo.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-Houston-Flight-Schedule-4-17-18.pdf
| Friday, May 11, 2018 | ||
| School Name / Teacher | 1/1 | Trans |
| Brazosport HS Chris McLeod |
1 | |
| Carroll HS Chris Patino |
2 | |
| Pasadena Memorial HS Kyle Jurek |
6 | 2 |
| South Houston HS Kevin Herron |
4 | 5 |
| UTSA Prinzton Flores |
1 | |
| Schools Launching 5 | ||
| Totals | 13 | 8 |
| Total Rockets | 21 | |
Please note that the schedule here does not reflect a launching order, only schools slated to participate for that day, and the number of vehicles being attempted.
As a reminder, since there is public access to this event, there are registration tickets for order and those may be found on the SystemsGo website as well at this link: https://www.greateventseats.com/SystemsGo . They are FREE, but REQUIRED. There is a waiver for admission you will sign along with your admittance ticket. You can get them at the gate but it is strongly advised to do this online ahead of time so that you do not slow yourself or anyone else down getting onto the range. This could cause you and others to miss your intended launches.
I will post each days schedules in this blog. They can also be found in original format on the SystemsGo website Events page.
More event details will be available here after the completion of Friday’s event.
If you follow this program and like to view the launches, Rockets 2018 will have Livestream available at the Smith Point launches so you will be able to view them online at the following address: https://livestream.com/systemsgo.
If you have been to the Houston area launches in the past you may want to check out the SystemsGo website for information because this location is only in its second year for that area. Information and a map link are available.
More event details will be available here in upcoming days as events get closer. Daily reports featuring schedules, school names, results, pictures and some editorial content will be posted during the events.
www.systemsgo.org as always is the place for more information on this program. You may also email them at info@systemsgo.org . Take the time to get your school involved, the future of your students will be greatly benefited.
Hope to see you at the launches! #RideTheSky! #Launcher01 #ItISrocketScience #Rockets2018
I would like to wish all the schools and students a picture perfect flight and recovery.
On the Wings of Angels 