What is Model Rocketry?
A young girl stands quietly amid the babble of her class mates, and she dreams of space. She, with the rest of her fifth grade science class, is standing at the edge of the school football field, watching their teacher clear the launch area fifty feet away. In the center of this area sits a small plastic and metal launch pad, and on the pad rests a gleaming white rocket, standing nearly a foot tall.The girl scrutinizes her craft from afar and hopes that all of her glue joints will hold. Most of the class had built their rockets from kits, but she had talked her science teacher in to staying after school and helping her design this one from scratch – she thought that it was a real work of art (and she was correct, no matter what it looked like). The teacher walks up to the launch controller and inserts the safety key. A light bulb glows on the controller. “We have continuity”, he says into a bull horn. The math students gathered at the far end of the field pick up their theodites so tha
