Here is a picture of our rocket, while we were waiting for the wood glue to finish drying on our fins. Here is a video of our rocket Lil Mayo being launched, the morning of Andrew asked us if we wanted an altimeter on it. Which is a small device that measures the altitude or how high, in this case our rocket went. Our rocket went up 512 feet, which is a lot higher than I expected it to go. That part of our launch went really well, but something that didn't go as well was the fact that our ejection cord didn't work. The ejection cord was what makes the parachute deploy, so since it didn't go off the parachute didn't deploy. This made our rocket land straight into the ground, our nose cone was smashed in, and the top part of the body tube had cracked. We were worried about the altimeter, because we thought it might have broken, luckily it wasn't. This was the best part of the project, seeing your final product and how it all works out. Even though our rocket didn't completely work, it was still fun seeing our final product being launched.
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