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- From: eder@hsvaic.boeing.com (Dani Eder)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Home made rockets
- Message-ID: <1566@hsvaic.boeing.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 18:48:51 GMT
- References: <5969.409.uupcb@matrix.sbs.com> <1992Aug19.234101.1@stsci.edu>
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- Organization: Boeing AI Center, Huntsville, AL
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- >In article <5969.409.uupcb@matrix.sbs.com>, george.gassaway@matrix.sbs.com (George Gassaway) writes:
- >> If "Estes" rocekts are not enough for you folk, try some of the
- >> commercially made larger rocket motors. Notably, Aerotech, who makes
- >> engines for consumers in the that go to E and F power. FAR more snesible
- >> than making your own. I've been into this hobby for 22 years and know
- >> better than to try to make up my own. Eventually, somebody gets injured
- >> of killed making up their own stuff. Just not worth it!!!
- >>
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- Even 'professionals' sometimes have accidents. I recall Thiokol, who
- makes the Solid Rocket Motors for the Space Shuttle having a fire
- in one of their casting pits that wiped out the building it was
- in. The casting pit is where you mix and pour the solid fuel, far
- away from any humans, in Utah.
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- Dani Eder
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