Verna & I hope 2019
will be your best year ever!
Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Is Coming!
With
the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 rapidly approaching (July 16, 2019)
I feel pretty safe predicting that 2019 will be remembered by rocketeers as the
year of the Saturn V. Most of the people we’ve heard from are building some
version of the Saturn V in hopes of flying it near or on July 16th.
Stock Estes single engine Saturn V With
companies like Estes, Sirius and others offering Saturn V kits you can put in as
much time and $$$ as you have to spend. Since we already have 4 variations built,
from single engine to clustered and staged, we’ll be spending our time prepping
them for the 16th but for those who don’t have one yet, there’s
still time to be ready. Just decide which version you want to build and get on
it!
And
don’t forget to involve the kids you know. It would be a great way and time to
get them off the couch and away from their phones and ipads for a bit. Build a
Saturn, WITH them, be a mentor. Who knows, you might help to inspire the first
man or woman to walk on Mars one day, or at least bring a new flyer into the
hobby.
Estes 3 stage, 11 engine
cluster.
Since
most clubs in the U.S. fly on weekends and July 16th is on a Tuesday
this year, it may present somewhat of a problem for said clubs or individuals
to launch that day, but where there’s a will there’s usually a way.
Of course, commemorative
flights can take place anytime during the mission window from the 16th
- 24th and still be just as
much a part of the celebration. The main thing is to celebrate man’s greatest
achievement in some way, hopefully by flying your own Saturn V.
For
those of you still sitting on the fence, Estes just re-issued their Saturn V in limited numbers. If you're ever going to get
one now is the time.
Randy
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Above you see a rare photo of Dave Miller, appropriately dressed in black as owner of the clandestine black ops organization
known as Sirius Rocketry! What does he do in his spare time? He reads Rocket Babe, what else?
That's a nice looking Cestris Fighter he's holding too! Get yours from https://www.siriusrocketry.com
Verna Starr Cestris Fighter!
Above you see our favorite Sirius kit, the Cestris. The kit is intended to fly on a single engine but it was easily modified
to a 3 engine cluster complete with Verna Starr fighter decals, also available from Sirius.
Randy
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There
will be 2 lunar
eclipses early in 2019, with a partial and a full eclipse taking place in
January for millions of viewers. The partial will be January 6th and
visible from parts of Asia and the pacific.
The
second will be a
total eclipse visible January 20-21 at 12:12 am Eastern Time by those living in
North and South America as well as western
parts of Africa and Europe. Some are calling the full eclipse a Super Blood
Wolf Moon because the moon will be slightly closer than normal and under
certain conditions, it can have a reddish tint. Since most of us don’t own or
live near a wolf I’m not sure why that’s part of it, but ok.
The great thing about a lunar eclipse is that you do not
need any special equipment to enjoy the event. While a nice pair of binoculars
or a telescope is nice, neither is required. All you really need is a clear sky
and a place to enjoy it away from street lights.
If you have a good
SLR and a tripod you might get some nice photos, but regardless of how you view
it just be sure to mark your calendars and don’t miss this one.
Randy
She'll go with you anywhere! Kevin, owner and moderator at the Alien Soup sci-fi
forum, enjoys Rocket Babe - Dust Storm between innings at a recent ballgame!
Bones says...
"July 16, 1969 - July 16, 2019!"
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