{"id":7150,"date":"2021-02-07T05:53:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T10:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=7150"},"modified":"2021-02-18T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T11:00:18","slug":"first-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2021\/02\/first-rocket-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"First Rocket Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while ago my mom unearthed a box of ~30 year old model rocket stuff. Continuing Alice’s current rocket kick<\/a>, this weekend we assembled one of the intact kits, she painted it, and we launched it. As a true introduction to model rocketry, we went through several sets of batteries (including Pop-Pop running home to get more) until we found a strong enough batch for the finicky\/inefficient controller; multiple igniters failed to ignite (you had one job!); the wind changed while we were futzing with batteries so the rocket drifted off-field, landed in a parking lot, and broke a fin; and then we had to leave anyway so Alice could use the bathroom. All in all… a semi-successful first flight.<\/p>\n

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Much thought and planning went into the painting of the rocket.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Executing the painting assembly line.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ready to launch!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Successful recovery.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while ago my mom unearthed a box of ~30 year old model rocket stuff. Continuing Alice’s current rocket kick, this weekend we assembled one of the intact kits, she painted it, and we launched it. As a true introduction to model rocketry, we went through several sets of batteries (including Pop-Pop running home to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363],"tags":[257,385],"class_list":["post-7150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockets","tag-featured","tag-lpr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7159,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions\/7159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}