Rockets Rock!

Today we had a lot of time to work on our rocket design and to work on any improvements we wanted to make on the rocket. My group decided to make a fairly large parachute out of a tablecloth that was purchased from Wal-Mart.  Of course our tablecloth is fabulous and tie-dyed, because who buys normal plain tablecloths? Just no. It had to be fabulous. Our design was quite simple; we cut the tablecloth into a circle and fastened 8 strings on it that were equally spaced out from each other. We re-enforced the parachute with duct tape. As far as the rocket goes, the most daring thing we did to it was add an extra fin, which happened to work really well. Our last launch was by far the best one we have done. We got a time of 13.15 seconds.