Today was another success filled day at Houston Rockets as six schools were slated to launch a total of 24 rockets. The number dropped to 19 though as 5 from different schools were scrubbed. That is a total of 40 rockets so far for the weekend. The Recovery map shows 35 found with 5 lost or in process of location. At this point they are at an 88% recovery rate. That is not bad, Fredericksburg’s crews finished their weekend with a 91% recovery rate. I will be curious to see which recovery group will finish with the highest percentage. Just thought I would add in a little friendly competition between recovery groups. Besides the better we all do, the better it is for the students.
Well weather seemed to be a repeat of yesterday with a sunny/partly cloudy but breezy day. Not bad rocket weather. It definitely didn’t hamper the launches because they put up all 19 by 17:26(5:26) this evening. That is an awesome time schedule for the day. As Phil stated on the Livestream, “We are going to get to eat supper before 10:30 tonight.”
Interesting events for the day included a “Dog-onaut” which literally did Ride The Sky on four of Northstar High School’s rockets today. His name was Logan, the stuffed dalmatian dog that they affixed to the vehicles and recovered him to ride again and again. After his fourth flight they did allow him retirement and he will always be remembered in the high school rocket launch hall of fame. Unfortunately I did not get my own shot of him, but this one is from the SystemsGo Facebook post about him.
The last launch of the day took the theme from #RideTheSky to #WriteYourOwnStoryInTheSky. As Northstar High School launched a rocket designed to look like a giant pencil. Here it is pictured below.
Launches will continue Sunday. The schedule is posted below, as well as an online link to it. Four schools and 11 rockets are due for testing.
The current launch schedule for Sunday 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
| Sunday, May 13, 2018 | ||
| School Name / Teacher | 1/1 | Trans |
| Anahuac HS Kirk Moore |
1 | 1 |
| Booker T Washington HS Nghia Le |
2 | 1 |
| Kingwood Park HS Glenn Taylor |
4 | |
| McGregor HS
Taylor Wilson |
1 | 1 |
| Schools Launching 4 | ||
| Totals | 8 | 3 |
| Total Rockets | 11 | |
Please remember that 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.
More event details will be available here after the completion of Sunday’s event. Reports featuring schedules, school names, results, pictures and some editorial content will be posted during the events.
Pictures will be available here in this blog and in Facebook albums for you to view at the end of each days launches, as well as during the day from Phil and SystemsGo on Facebook. Links to both our Facebook pages are below.
https://www.facebook.com/ginger.burow
Unfortunately I only had WiFi available for a short portion of the end of the day, so I only got a few screen grabs, and no photos from a team members but I will post what I have.
https://www.facebook.com/SystemsGoEducation/
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.
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 races, nope, but I will race you for a rocket! #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 