There are always scouts at our big launches and all I can say is make sure you contact Joe Hinton, our president, so he is aware you guys are coming. There are definitely multiple vendors with A-E motors for sale at reasonable prices.

We maintain 8 pads set up for those motor sizes and the kids will love it. We really love having the kids - especially on Saturday. Do be aware that Sunday is HPR only under Tripoli Research Rules meaning that all flyers must be Tripoli L2 or above.

We look forward to seeing you guys and helping out with their merit badges however we can.

Warren

Kevin,

Do you know if there will be an Space Exploration MB counselor from your troop at the launch?

The reason I ask is that I am involved with a troop in Louisville that has some scouts that have partials on the badge. One or two of them might show up to get signed off.

Ed

Yep, No Problem, I am a counselor for the Merit badge and will be there to sign off items.

I will setup for a class on Saturday to cover these items:
1. Purpose, History, Goals, Benefits.
4. Law of Action-reaction, Engine theory, Satellites, pictures
5.a. Discussion of Manned and unmanned missions
6. Purpose and operation of the Space Shuttle or ISS.
8. Careers

They should come with the following items complete:
2. Design a collector's card, with a picture on the front and information on the back, about your favorite space pioneer. Share your card and discuss four other space pioneers with your counselor.
3. Have their rocket built and ready to fly. They need to be able to identify the main parts. The launch requires a specific objective. The objective for this launch will be to have a recovery system that returns the rocket to the ground so it can be launched again within the same day.
(Have them bring at least 2-3 engines)
5. They need to do 1 of these:
b. Using magazine photographs, news clippings, and electronic articles (such as from the Internet), make a scrapbook about a current planetary mission.
c. Design an unmanned mission to another planet or moon that will return samples of its surface to Earth. Name the planet or moon your spacecraft will visit. Show how your design will cope with the conditions of the planet's or moon's environment.
Go To JPL Missions unmanned Missions reference http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/
Go To NASA History Page for Human Space Flight http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/index.html
Go To The Project Apollo Archive reference on the Apollo moon missions http://www.apolloarchive.com/
Go To How to Design Your Spacecraft http://my.execpc.com/~culp/space/spacecraft.html

7. Design an inhabited base on the Moon or Mars. Make drawings or a model of your base. In your design, consider and plan for the following:
a. Source of energy
b. How it will be constructed
c. Life-support system
d. Purpose and function
Go To How to Design Your Spacecraft http://my.execpc.com/~culp/space/spacecraft.html
Go To NASA's Vision for Space Exploration for plans for lunar bases. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/main/index.html
Go To The Case for Mars to find plans for Martian bases. http://spot.colorado.edu/~marscase/Home.html

Oh hey, another note: For the Space Pioneer Collectors card, I am rying to steer the kids away from astronauts. Here are some other suggestions:
Johannes Kepler
Isaac Newton
Werner Von Braun
Yuri Gagarin
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Robert Goddard
Hermann Oberth

Kevin,

I tried sending a PM, but not sure it went through.

Send me an email when you get a chance.

Ed

thedawsons@qwest.net

Is this the Scout group we met that was out shooting at the March launch????

If so, thanks for the ride back to the launch area.....

Greg

Make sure your guys know to watch out for rattlesnakes. We came across this one on 4/5/08 while out hunting for a lost rocket ESE of the windmill.

He looks to be a really good sized one - and mad!

I will definately warn them about the snakes! Wow.

This is a different group of boys than at the March launch. Most of them have done some model launches but none of them have seen rockets to this extreme.

Hey Ed, thanks for the heads up on MBU, I contacted them and will be running the Space exp. class this weekend for them.

Kevin

Kevin,

Thanks to you for volunteering at MBU! I'll be there this weekend as well - organizing our troops attendees - all 33 of them. Hope to see you there.

NCR should be forwarned there are LOTs of scouts with a growing interest in rocketry. Perhaps we will start to see a regular attendace of a few at this summer's launches.

Ed