The Flight of The Archeron

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This is my first and only action project for my STEAM class called Rocket Science. In the class we covered the history of space exploration, calculating and graphic launches and designing and building aircrafts. Rather than having 3 separate units we had a bunch of what we called mini-missions. In the begin of the class we mainly focused on past space missions and the advancement that came with it, one of the most interesting parts of this was the presentations we did on the race to space. One of the mini-missions that we had in this part of the class was a research paper about a past space mission that we found particularly interesting or inspiring. After we completed that portion of the class we went on to look at calculating flight and launching. We learned a number of equations, one of them being how to calculate the hight of a throw just based off of the time in the air and distance traveled. Another concept we learned about was binary and ASCII code, a code consisting of only 1's and 0's, usually it is used by computers when processing or storing data. After spending quite a bit of time talking numbers and equations we reached the designing part of the class, where we talked about not just physics and aerodynamics but also about past designs. I really enjoyed this part of the class because we talked about the architect and artist Galina Balashova. For the action project, we took all of the work we created and designed our own bottle rocket. We were given a price list of materials and a budget of 1 million dollars to work with. In the presentation below is the final result of the mini-missions and the final launch of my bottle rocket.



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