Today we had to launch our rockets again. Our goals to meet were 5 or more seconds in the air. We forgot our rocket again today, so we had to make a new one with what we had. We glued two bottles together to make it longer, and also glued on wings. To make sure the wings didnʻt fall off this time, we also duck taped them. We made a parachute out of a small trash bag, and some string. We tape the string onto the bottle, and neatly wrapped the parachute up. For our nose cone, we cut the top off of a bottle and taped one part on. We put the nose can as loosely on the top as we could so that it would be able to fall off, and allow the parachute to deploy. Our launch was a success. It was in the air for 9.5 seconds. It was pretty cool to see because our school was in a cloud, so you couldnʻt see the bottle. As it was coming back down, we were afraid it would get stuck in the tree, but the tree actually caused the parachute to deploy. This added one to two seconds on to our air time. We need to improve our parachute, and I think we should be good. I will post the video when it loads!
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