Yes, every team member has now become part of the local utah high power rocket club as well as the NAR.
We all understand this is NOT a harm free project. Safety measures were the very first question asked in our group meetings.
We are ALL becoming certified, not just one member, that would be way to irresponsible on our end.
Only reason i mention thiokol is because of the post someone mentioned on page 2 to get some sponsors. I have also been offered a job at thiokol to help with the GEM63 motors, but still debating if i want to
My entire team is made up of aerospace engineers, since this is capstone for our class
we know how and why rockets work, we are just doing the design principle now.
I have done about 5 to 6 hours of flight sims in OR this weekend to see what we can do. We have some ideas now that we want to test out. We are getting some kits as well
I understand all of this groups concerns very much. We are a very realistic team. We are not made up of just friends want to launch rockets. This is a REAL and very important project. The entire team has had years of math, science, physics, fluids, aerodynamics and design classes. We are just simply trying to get all our ducks in a row and take what we have learned in years of school from chemistry, o-chem, strengths, material science and the classes listed above and now make something so we can get jobs. This is NOT a fly by night project