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New Mexico Tech rocket team sends 10-pound payload to 10,000 feet altitude (video)
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology ^ | May 22, 2013 | New Mexico Tech Sounding Rocket Design Team

Posted on 05/30/2013 4:49:52 PM PDT by fishtank

Published on May 22, 2013

Test flight of the New Mexico Tech Sounding Rocket Design Team's rocket.

This team of Mechanical Engineering students includes senior, junior, and sophomore students who have worked throughout the 2012-2013 academic year to design and build a rocket capable of carrying a 10 lb payload to 10,000 feet above ground level.

The team will be competing in the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association student competition in June 2013. This video is from the first test flight of the team's competition rocket.

(Comments from the video link page.)


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: newmexico; payload; rocket
I did not produce this video, but I know some of the people involved.

This video is pretty interesting.

They combine the drama a slow-motion cinema soundtrack style music with hero-pose drama walking down a corridor to a control room where they launch a rocket in the style of old-school NASA suspense and pre-launch tension.

Enjoy!

1 posted on 05/30/2013 4:49:52 PM PDT by fishtank
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To: fishtank

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDuxycASmyY


2 posted on 05/30/2013 4:50:11 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

I DID enjoy, thanks.


3 posted on 05/30/2013 4:57:31 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: fishtank

Nicely done, right down to the white shirts and pocket protectors.


4 posted on 05/30/2013 4:58:40 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: fishtank

Great effort NM types


5 posted on 05/30/2013 4:59:15 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....Obama Denies Role in Government)
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To: gorush
I loved the guy in the vest, very much like Apollo!

The real thing.

The movie.

6 posted on 05/30/2013 5:00:50 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Charles Martel

The first time I saw it, I went back and forth between laughing and being awestruck.


7 posted on 05/30/2013 5:01:44 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

Some high school kids from Fredericksburg, TX fired one off that hit 36,000 feet at White Sands.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/stennis/news/newsreleases/2009/HEC-09-004.html


8 posted on 05/30/2013 5:02:57 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Fred Hayek

I’ve jumped out of perfectly good airplanes at 13,500’.
This is no big deal.....
Hell, I could make a great combat movie if I could find my little green army guys and my BlackCat firecrackers/S


9 posted on 05/30/2013 5:59:56 PM PDT by 9422WMR (: " Tolerance is the virtue of a man who has no convictions".)
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To: fishtank

The guy holding the camera must have been drunk at around 2:25 — couldn’t hold it steady at all!


10 posted on 05/30/2013 6:44:42 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: fishtank

bttt


11 posted on 05/31/2013 6:52:13 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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13 posted on 05/31/2013 11:52:56 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: CedarDave

NMT is my favorite Alma Mater.
Always was something interesting going on there.


14 posted on 05/31/2013 12:03:18 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: fishtank

The launch area is probably the spot where they also do some explosive testing. It’s right off Hwy 60 a few miles east of Magdalena.


15 posted on 05/31/2013 12:39:42 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator

Hmmm.

I’m not sure. I wasn’t at the launch, I just got the link and posted it here.


16 posted on 05/31/2013 12:41:07 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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