More Rockets Today

The second sessions of rocketry are taking place today at Mariposa and Linda Verde schools. At Linda Verde, the kids get parachutes for their rockets and I get to see how each group has researched their launch rocket group name. We'll fly them next session in two weeks. Over at Mariposa, we're having the second meeting of the After School Rocketry Club. We have more kids joining up, and today Quest Starhawk rockets will be given out and assembled. In each class, I'm going to introduce a little rocket math. I'll be showing how to calculate rocket altitude today using triangulation trigonometry. Each class will also get some Man and Space books from the old Time Life Sciences collection. These books excited me about the space flights of the 60's when I was their age, now they serve as historic markers of the space race