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On Friday, August 3, 2012, Jackson and I launched a minimum diameter rocket on an N5800 under the new Tripoli Mentoring Program. The rocket failed at max Q.
Before we give out the details, this quote says it all. Thanks to Sather Ranum for introducing us to this quote.
For us, the project was not about the record, although we would have loved to have achieved it. We built this rocket and drove all the way to the Black Rock because others had tried and failed at the task. Keeping the fins on a minimum diameter N5800 is a very difficult thing to do, if not impossible. We had to try.
Before we give out the details, this quote says it all. Thanks to Sather Ranum for introducing us to this quote.
THE MAN IN THE ARENA by Teddy Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
For us, the project was not about the record, although we would have loved to have achieved it. We built this rocket and drove all the way to the Black Rock because others had tried and failed at the task. Keeping the fins on a minimum diameter N5800 is a very difficult thing to do, if not impossible. We had to try.