Robert's Space Place
Just me and some of my thoughts about space... and anything else that might come up.
Monday, May 5, 2014
The Fleet That Never Was
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A comparison of launch vehicles from the early 1960's. Image courtesy NASA Today is the anniversary of Alan Shepard's suborbit...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Building the Pitsco "Model A"
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Pitsco is a great science education company. Just a visit to their website can provide science crazy kids with great ideas. One thing...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014
Dirty Birds, Starlings & Educational Rockets
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Way back in 2002, I wanted to find a way to manufacture some inexpensive model rockets for teaching purposes. After having a couple of stud...
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Meet The R-3
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This is the final product of my little scratch built rocket experiment, "Robert's Red Rocket", or R-3 for short. Considering ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Behold the Scratch Built Rocket
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It has been almost twenty years since I built a model rocket like this one. There are no commercial model rocket parts in its creation....
Monday, March 17, 2014
On The Wings of Apollo, Really
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The 1960's were a heady time for space exploration. Many of the designs that were being churned out by the various agencies and compani...
Friday, March 14, 2014
When The Rockets Were Real
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The cover to the 1972 Estes Model Rocket Catalog. Image courtesy Ninfinger.org and Estes I discovered model rockets in late 1969, when ...
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