Launch Report: January 4, 2000

    On this day Ted's two suite mates, Neelix and Humblik were visiting Boulder.  Naturally, I wanted to show my rockets off to them, and that's exactly what I did.
    Neelix was complaining that he had seen too many rocket launches when he was craft director at a summer camp.  Ted said, "But Willy has cool rockets!"  Indeed, I do!
Here I am, preparing for launch

    When we got to the park I set up.  Neelix was an ambush reporter, using our camcorder to film a news broadcast.  In addition to just having launch footage, we had a watchable news broadcast with ads. (Much later, Ted captured this footage and posted it online. It can be found on here: Logan Ludicrous Launchers - 48 mb)
    The first rocket to fly was SAM-66 (Which I am shown holding in the picture).  It thundered aloft on a "C" engine, after some ignition difficulties.  It flew so high that it disappeared in the clouds.  I never saw it descend.  I was afraid we had lost it.
    SAM-66 had apparently flown over the creek.  We spent a considerable amount of time searching for it.  When Ted and Humblik finally found SAM-66 it was right next to a fourplex.  When the rocket descended it was just centimeters from colliding with the fourplex.  Ouch.  The nose had fallen off and the weight was lost.
SAM-66 is ready to take to the skies once more    The only other launch of the day was of Hijax.  In the payload bay I had a Star Wars: Episode I Pit Droid action figure.  The flight itself was rather uneventful.  When we got home we tried to do an interview with the Pit Droid, but we couldn't get the camera to focus on the Pit Droid and me at the same time.  Oh well, it was a good idea.
    I'm glad that we could launch rockets that day.  I'll take any chance I can get to show off my rockets to someone, and what better way than to show them off that to fly them?



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