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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Hangin' Out With 'Mr Cineroc' - Part 2 - The Mad Scientist

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In a November 17, 1977 letter, Herb sent along this photo... Referred to as his 'Mad Scientist' picture, it shows Herb and the lau...
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Monday, April 23, 2018

Hangin' Out With 'Mr. Cineroc' Part 1

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Back in 1976, I received a letter in the mail from Silver Spring, MD, dated October 16th  and signed by a gentleman by the name of Herb Desi...
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Back In The Day #12 - The Space Shuttle Enterprise

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I finally located the photographs I had taken of the Space Shuttle Enterprise strapped to the back of a 747. The tandem made a two day stop...
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Friday, April 20, 2018

A Super-Cool Dumpster-Diving Find

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Every so often, an unexpected object will drop right out of the blue and into our laps. This happened to me yesterday at my workplace. I w...
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Thursday, April 19, 2018

Back In The Day, Part 11A

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That title kind of rhymes.... After writing yesterday's post, I seemed to recall something about the ROMAR section having those scopes...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Back In The Day, Part 11 - A Tracking Scope Revelation

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Last night I happened to be perusing through my collection of Model Rocketry Magazine issues , looking for some rocket plans I had recalled ...
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Monday, April 16, 2018

A Productive...and Frustrating Weekend

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This past weekend was a good one in the BlastFromThePast rocket lab.   I managed to make significant progress on  a build of an Orbital Tra...