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To: unixfox

When I lived in W. TX as a kid, these lizards were the payload for our Estes rockets. We learned about the asbestos wadding needed after launching the rocket, engine blew the nose cone off, but welded the plastic parachute to the lizard.

We had no shortage of alternate payloads. They’re everywhere.


31 posted on 04/24/2011 11:14:52 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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I hope astronaut “Liz” Lissom was given an honorable burial


46 posted on 04/24/2011 2:01:50 PM PDT by mylife
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51 posted on 04/24/2011 2:12:47 PM PDT by mylife
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To: FlyingEagle
When I lived in W. TX as a kid, these lizards were the payload for our Estes rockets.

Thanks for the confession....I thought I was the only one going to hell for doing that as a kid!

Those lizards didn't handle the G forces to well.
82 posted on 04/25/2011 7:05:27 AM PDT by TexanByBirth
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