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Rocket is made out of 100% cotton yarn, polyfill stuffing and safety eyes. He stands about 11 inches tall.
Rocket is ready to hop, skip and jump to his new home.
Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Wildcat
The Phoenix Suns beat the Houston Rockets 116-106 Sunday night at US Airways Center in Phoenix. The game featured three Wildcat basketball alumni with Houston's Jordan Hill and Chase Budinger, and the Suns' Channing Frye getting playing time.
Generally one launches model rockets during the day, because finding a rocket at night would be tricky.
Solution: put LEDs on it and light it up like a disco ball.
Most people roll their own night launch rockets but one company does make kits... The kits are horrific though, with missing parts, broken parts, terrible instructions, instructions that are flat out wrong, etc. My dad had one so he "let" me build it.
15 yellow LEDs in three sets of five that light up in a chase pattern down the sides of the rocket.
Three flashy yellow and blue LEDs, one pair at the base of each fin (the white tabs are there so they don't light up.
Three AAAA batteries (thats quadruple A) handle the 15 LEDs in the body while a pair of watch batteries sit in each tube above the fin lights.
The decals were just lying around, but since they were shiny and reflective, I added them too. The next night launch is in March.
it took over a dozen men to lift and secure each rocket into place. After they had climbed down a fuse was lit and the rocket would start roaring. Smoke would go everywhere for a few seconds before the rocket would lift off the tower and shoot into the sky. Some of the smaller rockets had colored streamers and parachutes come out. The biggest rocket, dubbed "the million" shot colored smoke before flying erratically and then shooting back to the earth (not supposed to happen) luckily nobody was hurt, and yes mom, I was very far from the danger zone. :)