Coolest rocketry club EVER.

[solarbird]

The Tripoli, Nebraska Rocketry Club test-fires its first medium-range ICBM!

I mean, _seriously_. This thing is 30' tall. It needs a launch tower. Which they also built!

No, these aren't photoshopped. It's really quite sad that it blows up on launch, of course.

...because _damn_. Their smaller rocket, they report, went up just fine.

Here's the whole "day of launch" page.

Comments

[pobig.livejournal.com]

Damn, this takes me back to, let's see, age 13, staying at my grandmother's place on the way back from California, plotting out a master rocket development plan in my notebook in between pleading to use the typewriter to lay out 6800 assembly programs. Ah, to be naïve and extravagantly ambitious again.

[chipmunck.livejournal.com]

*jaw dropped*... sweet...

[banner.livejournal.com]

I used to be in model rocketry, but these days to do the stuff we used to do, you have to have a permit from the BATF!! Can you believe that? Most of the engines we used are all illegal! I was told that this all happened (making it illegal) in the mid 90's, I don't know. Kind of sad. I wonder if there are still model rocketry clubs in any schools anymore?