GoFast Rocket Launch Black Rock Desert Nevada 2014

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so i’m the i’m the team leader of the
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group
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and designer of the rocket really kind
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of managed the whole event
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and then i was also the launch conductor
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um you know did all the countdown
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the gopro cameras actually all three of
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them did shut down on temperature
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and the cameras were all mounted to the
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outer skin
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of the rocket which does get really hot
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from the aerodynamic heating
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uh during the the boost portion of
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flight in fact some of those areas can
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get upwards of
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you know three or four hundred degrees
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and the photographs from space or the
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first that’s ever been captured
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from uh amateur rocket that’s actually
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reached space
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and on top of that um you could actually
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see the moon
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in in those um off you know off from the
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horizon which makes those photographs
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even more spectacular
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um that white object that goes
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fluttering by
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um could have been an alien for all we
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know it’s uh
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i have no idea what it is it might have
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been something that was in the
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booster when it separated and yeah we
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saw that too it’s a curious object
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we weren’t too far from where we had
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actually tracked it was on the other
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side of those mountains in that uh
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in that on that desert floor um and we
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were probably
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on the helicopter we were probably still
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maybe maybe three or four miles from
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where it was but
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you know unless you know where it’s at
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or have a good idea it’s really hard to
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see it we first got down on the ground
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in the area where the where the rocket
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was we couldn’t see it we could not find
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it and
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we actually found these drag marks we
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followed that drag mark
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about three quarters of a mile and then
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and then
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came right up to uh where the payload
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was
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in the course of the month that it was
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sitting out there the winds had picked
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up that parachute and dragged that
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payload section
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uh at least three quarters of a mile to
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its final resting spot where we found it
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i was talking to kai michaelson a couple
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of nights ago and we were
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just reminiscing about this flight and
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all the things that we experienced
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and uh both of us felt like the you know
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10 years is just way too long to wait
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for another one so hopefully it won’t be
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too many more years and we’ll be out
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there again to defeat our record